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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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