On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote:

> 30% is "much of" 50% :) Also, looking way way back at
> http://andblogs.net/fastboot/:
> *userdata*: 76 megs, Holds all the user applications and data. Reset the
> phone to factory by erasing it. (Sometimes referred to as ‘data’)
> *cache*: 70 megs, supposed to be temporary storage (/cache) but actually
> never used except by T-mobile OTA updates.
>

Ah, okay, I misread you as blaming the cache for taking 50% of the space.
 Sorry about that.

To properly rephrase:
> Literally 1/3 of the onboard flash was reserved purely for OTAs, although
> later OS versions used it as scratch space for downloads and such. (Nearly
> the same amount as was available to the user to begin with.)
>

Cache has *always* been used for other things.  It's not like the browser
and Market had some other magical place to put their downloads.

Anyway, this is a silly discussion.

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