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 55 points 5 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 5 days 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 4 points 5 days 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 5 days ago

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

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