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One wonders if this is common everywhere at this scale. Take Facebook's massively bloated iOS app:

https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/6upeu6/how_...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14903228

And their Android app patching Dalvik at runtime to deal with the huge number of Java methods:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...

And they're not the only ones known for bloated apps, either. Take Amazon's apps for instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14902875

parent Apocryphon 5 years ago

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