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First the needs of the user-base should trump those of the dev.

And secondly the kinds of apps that are referred to here are not the type that need massive efficiency or some complex feature - when inconvenienced by yet another single-use car park payment app, I've never once thought how marvellous it was that the text downloaded so much faster than the many web sites I regularly use: mainly because that responsiveness is blown away by the need to faff about installing the app (not to mention the effort needed to avoid giving unnecessary phone access out!)



You forgot constant 100MB updates, which are just one page refresh on web.


And that one page refresh is probably also 100MB these days.


Uncompressed - maybe.




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