[fsflover]

Apple fans are arguing that simple, local apps require more resources, and it's normal:

> Userspace apps spend more time paging and are slower.

This is right in the current thread.

In reality, both local apps and websites do not have to get heavier in order to provide more features. Apple is effectively slowing down everything (as do typical web developers). And yet KDE, Firefox, HN, Mastodon prove that this is not exactly unavoidable.

[tristanj]

Firefox is a terrible example for you to pick as their app size on iOS ballooned from 35MB in 2015 to 373MB in 2026. That's over a 10x increase in bloat.

The developers of Firefox for iOS made the willful choice to bloat their app, not Apple.