Comments on: What’s the Size of Your Messaging app?

By: iau

iau — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 10:30:05 +0000

My Messenger app for Facebook is more than 260 MB on iphone…

By: Roberto Román

Roberto Román — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:50:04 +0000

Skype bloats by itself with new updates. I recently uninstalled it on a Galaxy 8550. It had eaten up 1Gb of space by itself. Just now I again uninstalled it on my Samsung Tablet where already it had grown to 448 mb. THAT’S the big question: why do updates make it grow and grow? After a couple of months it eats up valuable mobile memory space. Check your apps and see if you have the same problem…

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 06:28:05 +0000

In reply to Sergey Markovich.

The bigger the app the harder it is to manage throughout the whole value chain – it is harder for the app stores to send to devices, it is hard on devices to download and install.

For those with the newest phones with free WiFi connections and large data plans that might not be an issue, but if you look at over half of the world’s population, they are just not there. Messaging is headed towards that part of the users base now, and messaging apps will need to go on a diet to fit well to that market.

By: Inca

Inca — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:02:30 +0000

I don’t see the point of this article.
Most of those apps are updated automatically, at idle time using WiFi.

I don’t know what are you trying to say.

By: Sergey Markovich

Sergey Markovich — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:53:20 +0000

I update the mobile apps when I am connected to WiFi. So for me the size of apps (including the messengers) is not about the bandwidth but about the phone memory size.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:50:20 +0000

In reply to Aswath Rao. Yes, but so do the users who end up downloading these apps.

By: Aswath Rao

Aswath Rao — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:46:58 +0000

Don’t the app stores incur the bandwidth expenditures and not app publishers?