I think this discussion answers the wrong question. The question should not be if something is large or small compared with the size of the disc. The question should be: is it larger than it has to be for what it does? It is precisely this question that will keep Pharo slim.
Nowadays, the greatest problem in software engineering is the limit of the human brain, not of the machine. Doru On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:18 AM, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On mobile, large apps are not staying installed for long as they are > all competing for the always too small space. > > >> If say Twitter will do with is huge size, other apps will be compared > to it. Which means that a 30 mégas app us a monster asking for removal. > > >> I rooted my phone to be able to remove vendor apps in order to get some > more space. > > who said 30mbs are large for mobile phones ? > > Twitter is reporting 57mbs memory consumption on my phone. Its a Google > Nexus 4 , its 1 year and a half old now. It has 2 gb of Ram, 1 GB is free. > > Storage wise, both Android and iOS have loads of Games that require at > least a 1 GB download. Loads of people usually complain and rage on the > comment section why the game does not run on their smartphone that does not > stop the game from being highly rated and having hundrends of millions of > downloads. > > I use the famous clean master it reports cleaning 1 GB data at least once > per month (is reporting that has cleaned 20 GBs so far) and I dont even use > my smartphone that frequently. I use it like 1 hour per day. That data is > stuff downloaded by twitter and chrome for caching etc . > > Most users have no clue how much they download and what exactly. > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
