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The average iOS app released today is 31.3 MB (and other mobile trends) (blog.mightysignal.com)
4 points by mightyshane 3686 days ago
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earino 3686 days ago
good lord that's a lot of megabytes. i hadn't noticed this bloat until i downgraded to a very inexpensive android phone. it functions fundamentally perfectly except for the 8 gigs of storage. 31 megs is a massive amount of storage!
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erkose 3686 days ago
More interesting would be an analysis to determine the reason for the trending bloat.
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mightyshane 3686 days ago
In a previous post, we found that apps now have on average 16.4 SDKs, which could have something to do with it.

https://blog.mightysignal.com/new-app-report-2b2c686da209#.9...

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payne92 3685 days ago
Yow, my first hard drive was 40mb. And cost $425 (present dollars, probably $1000)
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fulldecent 3685 days ago
iOS Swift Hello world is basically 20 MB.
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