• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    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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      Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.

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        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