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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Even if I was willing to download all of those apps I don’t have room for them. They chew up 50-300mb each (why!?) and if I installed all of them I’d run out of memory. Since most phones now don’t support memory expansion I have to be picky about which ones I use.
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.
You can’t compare (what is arguably) the pique of human computing to modern phones.
…I miss the c64
I actually wrote my own text editor for the C-64
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.
Have you looked at Obtainium? It pulls apps directly from their release page, or f-droid repos.
I see people mentioning obtainium, but never tried it. Will it give some relevant benefits over fdroid for low end devices?
Every app is a bundle of a full website and spyware.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 week ago
The reason they’re so huge is
kayazere@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 week 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