Cheaper & faster development by leveraging large libraries/frameworks, but inability to automatically drop most unused parts of those libraries/frameworks. You could in theory shrink Electron way down by yoinking out tons of browser features you're not using, but there's not much incentive to do it and it'd potentially require a lot of engineering work.

[–] zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 54 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, though the joke is funny, this is the real answer.

Storage is cheap compared to creating custom libraries.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Also the storage is the cost for the user, and google in the case of play store. So the developers have no incentive to reduce the size.

[–] UnityDevice@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Storage is cheap on a PC, it's not cheap on mobile where it's fixed and used as a model differentiator. They overcharge you so much. Oh, and they removed SD card slots from nearly all phones.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Nah it's fine. Clean up used apps every once in a while. Base phones have more than enough space.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

64kb should be enough for anyone

[–] ngdev@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

is that the size of doom or something lol

[–] MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz 19 points 1 day ago

Its a reference to an old he said she said quote attributed to bill gates from the 1990's

“640K ought to be enough for anyone” — Bill Gate

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/09/08/640k-enough/

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Yep. Apps are 20x bigger with no new features...that you are using.

Let's not forget that the graphics for applications has scaled with display resolution, and people generally demand a smooth modern look for their apps.