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Re:Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colga... by ragnese on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @04:36PM (#41372704)
To be fair, all of that tracking and data collection would still never add up to some 100MB. It's more likely that they have extremely unoptimized assets (images, icons, fonts, time zone data, sounds, etc) and/or are using one of these janky "frameworks" that let you slap together a half-baked "native" app in a few hours by translating your poorly-written JavaScript into poorly-written native code.
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Re:Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colga... by JohnBooty on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @06:02PM (#41373621)
This is undoubtedly true. It might be doing nefarious things, but it was definitely not written with efficiency in mind.
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Re:Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colga... by vorticalbox on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @04:50PM (#41372858)
From the x thread 80% of the size is pdfs of their toothbrush products.
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Re:Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colga... by ragnese on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @04:57PM (#41372948)
Makes sense. I don't have an X account, so I can only see the linked post (AFAIK).
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Re:Why is the Oral-B iOS app almost 300 MB? And why is Colga... by Tagbert on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @08:14PM (#41385818)
Yes, they likely contracted with a third-party development firm to build the app. They didn't pay or even think about optimization. They also didn't think about maintenance. Its likely that they will issue another request for bid when it is time to do another version and the next bid winner will build a new app that is even crappier.
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