[saagarjha]

> Their app absolutely needs to be bloated or it won't work at all.

It really doesn’t. I remember this being brought up back when the Uber engineer crying about how their compiler couldn’t match their scale was making the rounds, and in the end the numbers just did not add up to support the app size they have right now.

> All of those apps need to be consistent to each other, rather than to their host platforms.

Why? Platform-specific apps, for the most part, should feel at home on their platforms. Not doing this is how you get YouTube for Apple TV and similarly bad apps.