I did not buy 64GB of flash storage so Facebook could be lazy. I bought 64GB of flash storage to store media that gets noticeably better, to a point, when you throw more bits at it.
Things that are smaller than Facebook's iOS app:
- Windows, through at least Windows 95, if you count stuff written to disk during install
- The Java Runtime Environment
- Eclipse IDE
- Google Chrome for OS X (beware—updater leaves old versions in the app bundle)
- Firefox for OS X
- Pokémon Go
- A two-disc set encoded in 256kbps AAC
And to add insult to injury, Messenger is another 155MB, and is a separate app for some reason, probably with a second copy of that bigger-than-the-JRE-by-itself FBSharedFramework.
And while the sudden almost 300MB is new, the "I can't believe this is a Web service front-end and not an experimental operating system" bloat has been with us for a while.
Things that are smaller than Facebook's iOS app:
- Windows, through at least Windows 95, if you count stuff written to disk during install
- The Java Runtime Environment
- Eclipse IDE
- Google Chrome for OS X (beware—updater leaves old versions in the app bundle)
- Firefox for OS X
- Pokémon Go
- A two-disc set encoded in 256kbps AAC
And to add insult to injury, Messenger is another 155MB, and is a separate app for some reason, probably with a second copy of that bigger-than-the-JRE-by-itself FBSharedFramework.
And while the sudden almost 300MB is new, the "I can't believe this is a Web service front-end and not an experimental operating system" bloat has been with us for a while.