Comment by onlyrealcuzzo
1 year ago
> Now the question: What can that 2 MB VAX banking application not do, that the 613 MB iOS application can?
Work on your iPhone?
All the bells and whistles of that UI come at a large cost - memory.
And why not?
The iPhone's got it.
A better question might be: why does App A on the iPhone take up about ~10x as much space as the same app on Android?
And the answer is probably because iPhone users don't care...
If they did, Apple would probably do something about it...
> And why not?
> The iPhone's got it.
And why not?
Let's ruin the planet, we've got it.
Apple is more unethical in their resource waste than Google. But Google is very very far from innocent.
Is making a 256 GB storage model much more wasteful than 128GB.
How is Apple more unethical than Google on resource waste?
Apple supports all their consumer hardware longer than Google.
Apple will still let you sync your original iPod with your Mac and purchase music digitally “the old fashioned way.” Good luck using the Google Play Store on your EOL Android device.
Google is the one that wasted a whole bunch of plastic and silicon on Stadia controllers before discontinuing the service and giving people an arbitrary deadline to convert the controllers into standard Bluetooth.
In what universe is Google less wasteful than Apple?
Who brought us Retina displays that have increased RAM needs, processing power and bus bandwidth by factors? It looks nicer, so what. I can use the Web perfectly for most of the sites I am interesting on a 640x360 phone. Even OsmAnd~ is pretty usable.
Android runs on many low spec phones.
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Another point given in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41461071
> All the bells and whistles of that UI come at a large cost - memory.
I’m not sure that’s true. If they tried they could have made an app with loads of bells and whistles that’s 10x smaller (unless we’re talking about a lot of media content). It’s just not something many developers care about due to various reasons
You had me until the "users don't care". I'm a user and reported this issue which resulted in the post we're discussing. Bank management/developers don't care is the issue.