Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mPony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  most phones now don’t support memory expansion

  Well of course not. If phones supported memory expansion you would just buy more memory, instead of buying an entirely new phone Don’t even get me started on how bloated these apps have become. I used Paperclip word processor on a Commodore-64; you can not convince me that your app needs to be 50+ Megs in size.

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  • btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I actually wrote my own text editor for the C-64

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  • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And that’s one of the benefits from open source apps. I have a very low end and dated phone, and yet I have more apps installed and hardware functionality than the average person, because I grab everything I can from f-droid. It’s amazing how much smaller and performant everything is.

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    • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have you looked at Obtainium? It pulls apps directly from their release page, or f-droid repos.

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      • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I see people mentioning obtainium, but never tried it. Will it give some relevant benefits over fdroid for low end devices?

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can’t compare (what is arguably) the pique of human computing to modern phones.

    …I miss the c64

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• throwback3090@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Every app is a bundle of a full website and spyware.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The reason they’re so huge is

  1. They’re generally not well optimized by the creators.
  2. They all contain their own dependencies
  3. There’s a LOT of stuff in them (both code and dependencies). Which is kind of an optimization problem, but potato potato.

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  • kayazere@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same thing with rendering/layout/functionality frameworks. And each app has their own.

      My favorite Android app, Trail Sense, which has the ability to know when sunrise and sunset are without Internet, is like 10MB

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