Re:I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app
by MetaWhirledPeas on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @12:09PM
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Without diving into specifics we'll never know of course. But consider the opposite: would good decisions positively or negatively impact their business? Would they prevent them from achieving their mission or focusing on other things?
I can think of how bad decisions could negatively impact their mission and focus:
- App is slow and buggy, pressuring users to choose a different service altogether
- A much larger support staff is required to handle customer issues
- Bugs are painful to address and require weeks or months to resolve
- Developers spend more time fixing bugs and less time working on features, resulting in delayed features and an increased team size to allow more parallel development
I can think of how bad decisions could negatively impact their mission and focus:
- App is slow and buggy, pressuring users to choose a different service altogether
- A much larger support staff is required to handle customer issues
- Bugs are painful to address and require weeks or months to resolve
- Developers spend more time fixing bugs and less time working on features, resulting in delayed features and an increased team size to allow more parallel development