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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by mibollma on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:24AM (#30614674)
I use the Amazon app regularly and my phone has enough storage to fit the app more that 600 times. It's not a particularly expensive phone either.

Given that I'm not sure why I should care as long as it works.

As a dev I agree it's technically interesting to find out why, as a user I think it just doesn't matter.

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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by ipaddr on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:48AM (#30614956)
You have over 100 gig of storage space free on your 'old' phone? I just upgraded a year ago to 32 total gigs.

I can see why jumbo app wouldn't affect you.

I've got 7t on my desktop. Would you mind if chrome automatically updated to 1t. It's not a new computer pre-owned 2015

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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by oblio on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @10:52AM (#30615792)
I don't know your exact context, but a ~$200 phone from Samsung comes with 64GB of storage...

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_a32_5g-10648.php

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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by ipaddr on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:43PM (#30617614)
You still can't fit 600 Amazon apps. You would need over 100 gigs.
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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by oblio on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:45PM (#30617644)
Are we doing reductio an absurdum here?

Or just trying to figure out how we can do "smartphone death by a 1000 Amazon apps"? :-))

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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by mibollma on Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:42AM (#30625412)
I have a Realme GT Neo2 which comes with 128gig at about 330€. Of course if it occupies a significant portion, it would be an issue. On the other hand when I look at the kind of updates that Steam and Playstation are pulling, 200mb feels like nothing.
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