I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app

Post by chefandy » Wed, Mar 02, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

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rvnx wrote: post #51

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Contrarian opinion here; I understand their logic. It looks like a rational trade-off that the engineers have done. Increase developer productivity at the expense of hardware. In this case, engineering is more expensive than hardware (because hardware is at the cost of the user). The smallest iPhone starts at 128 GB. This means the application takes 500/128000 blocks: 0.4% of the total device storage. Over time, the…

> what it would have cost United Airlines to do it “the right way”, versus what value it brings them It may depend on the app, but Uber noticed that the bigger the app, the fewer people install it, unsurprisingly. I also had friends who wouldn't install Signal because they don't have any space left on the device, and they stick to Whatsapp/Messenger which they already have. https://eng.uber.com/how-uber-deals-with-la…