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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by spicybright on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:19AM (#30616220)
I don't think inherently large apps like games would be a problem on paper. Your game is competing against similarly sized games, not, say, a todo list app.
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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by bdben on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:21PM (#30617238)
And if someone else can publish an equally enjoyable game with a smaller size, then there's no reason not to reward them for it.
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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by Larrikin on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:28PM (#30617344)
How does game app size factor into the enjoyment in any way? Android phones aren't like iPhones and most have sd card slots which are dirt cheap nowadays.
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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by minot on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @08:14PM (#30622114)
I do not recommend using SD cards to store apps. I think SD cards are for storing media like photos we take or music we listen to…

SD card is just not nearly as fast as NVMe storage or even UFS 3.

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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by greggman3 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:12PM (#30617981)
shorter novels are better than longer novels? shorter movies better than longer movies? I don't think measuring on number of bytes is really a good metric. Tic-Tac-Toe is pretty small but I'd rather play GTA5
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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by 10000truths on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @02:42PM (#30619059)
Novels and movies aren’t baked into app binaries, they’re served on demand. And most people looking to download games have specific criteria in mind, e.g. genre, rating, publisher, price etc. It’s very unlikely that Tic-tac-toe and GTA5 fall under the same criteria for any given consumer.
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Re:Android: Freeing up 60% of storage for apps by removing p... by spicybright on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @06:59PM (#30621604)
the tic tac toe game that's 5mb should beat the one that's 500mb in search results.
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