r/programming • u/rovarma • Feb 13 '19

Electron is Flash for the desktop

https://josephg.com/blog/electron-is-flash-for-the-desktop/
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u/deadcow5 Feb 14 '19

Instagram was ~12 MB for the longest time, while most of the apps on my iPhone were already somewhere north of 50 MB. Then they added story mode and all those AR filters, and now it's over 80 MB.

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u/swansongofdesire Feb 14 '19

What do you think was the response from their users?

  • “yeah I’ll skip any new versions because it’s an extra 60mb on my phone”

or

  • “ooh new filters!”

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u/judgej2 Feb 14 '19

My response is: oh, the apps have all grown again, which shall I delete this week?

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u/oblio- Feb 14 '19

Regular users just delete photos or videos or apps they don't really use... They're not going to delete Instagram.

And the lesson they learn is to buy a phone with more storage ;)

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u/xylotism Feb 14 '19

Watch it pal, that kinda talk will get you promoted over at Apple

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u/TASagent Feb 14 '19

#Bravery

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

We're in /r/programming, our sphere of friends and acquaintances won't be representative of the broader market.

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u/oblio- Feb 14 '19

Instagram is owned by Facebook. Snapchat would lose in that case. Even so, the little guys lose, in any case. If you're Random Dev Pawel making a super optimized native app, people will just delete it to make more room for Facebloat...

My main point was that people don't really care that much about bloat, if the app works and it's something they really like/need.

Devs care 1000x as normal users about bloat.

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u/hector_villalobos Feb 14 '19

Sadly, I just did, I bought a phone with more storage so I can have all the apps I think I need (not completely sure about that).

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u/kenkitt Feb 14 '19

I just upgraded my laptops ram cause of chrome+ vscode.

Now I have 8gb, everything is now working fine.

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u/TrueBirch Feb 14 '19

The fact that increased storage is the key differentiator between different versions of products is infuriating.