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Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? by Aloisius on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @05:52PM (#46519983)
The version I'm looking at has 27,470 strings files, mostly of them less than 4 KB each.

Since the iOS filesystem uses 4 KB blocks, it looks like about half the space is just wasted.

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