cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/6125697
Artist: David Revoy
Just yesterday I noticed how insane proprietary apps on Android became.
- nearly all of these work 90% as webapps through the browser
- the Webapps have some arbitrary limits though, like being partly PC-style only, or having "install the app" buttons everywhere, not allowing to view Videos, etc.
- they have like 10 buttons and settings, dont do client side encryption and generally just do stuff the Webview can do
- they are f**ing 400MB+ big???
Examples:
- Sennheiser Soundcontrol
- TikTok
- X
- ...
All proprietary bloated garbage. Updates take literally minutes on them. It is insane, as they should be like 20MB max, as everything is just Webview.
These are as big as Electron apps.
Firefox is โ 300MB big. AN ENTIRE BROWSER