The most important applications on iOS are getting heavy
Apple’s new operating system will try to maximize the space occupied by applications, but they continue to grow in terms of space occupied in device memory, even exceeding 400MB as for Facebook.
Over the years, smartphones, as well as tablets, have raised their internal storage space, trying to give more space to all the multimedia content that users usually put in their mobile devices.
In this case, the internal memory of a particular device, such as a smartphone or tablet, seems to be no longer merely a prerogative of multimedia content made directly by users but also and above all of applications that are becoming more ” obese ” than in recent years.
According to a research carried out by SensorTower, the most important applications in the world are weighing more and more with only 4 years and 11 times. Observing the chart of researchers, one can observe that on average, it has gone from a value of 164 MB in 2013, sum of the ten most important applications on iOS, at 1.8 GB in the last few months.
In this case, the increase in the code of the developed applications is also to be considered in the whole of iOS firmware developments as well as the increase in device resolutions over the last few years.
It is clear that applications such as Facebook, Gmail, Spotify, but also Google Maps. Uber, YouTube, Instagram, Messenger and Snapchat have greatly increased their demand for space on smartphones or tablet users.
Specifically, we can observe how the most widely used application as Facebook has even reached 419MB of weight or even Uber weights even 285MB. It’s also interesting to note how Snapchat over the years has increased its application weight by 10 times the 4MB it weighed in 2013. It’s similar for other apps that have often quadrupled their weight on Apple’s store.
In short, it is increasingly apparent that mobile device manufacturers will have to deal with the need for more space developers for their applications. Apple is trying to rush into the developer of its ecosystem by designing an operating system that minimizes this indiscriminate increase in the weight of applications.
The rule is to develop the application by allowing the user, secondly, to activate or deactivate some features that thus increase the weight of the latter. Tools that still do not seem to have solved the problem perhaps even for bad upstream optimization.
