Agreed, the reference does not look reliable for the claim made. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gergo Tisza Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2017 5:54 AM To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using non-free elements vs our values (Apple Maps vs Wikipedia iOS app) On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote: > The size of your app can significantly reduce downloads [1]. > [1]: https://segment.com/blog/mobile-app-size-effect-on-downloads/ That article seems super sketchy. They took a 3MB app, increased it to 100MB+, and interpolated the retention changes linearly. They even point out that the drop in installs was mostly due to negative reviews (since they reverted the app size and the installs didn't climb back up) and the reviews were mostly along the line of "WTF is this simple calculator app a hundred megabytes?". The Wikipedia app is 39MB and the SDK seems to add one MB per [2] which does not sound like a big deal. [2] https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-mobile-polylines/ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.8007 / Virus Database: 4767/14161 - Release Date: 03/21/17 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
