Comment by akireu

They're just poster children for the particular brand of disdain $100k+/year "tech workers" bear for their users: they make enough for the shiniest of toys, so they're too far above spending their valuable time to make their software run smooth on our $100 crap phones. Nevermind that each Fb client update likely produces hundreds of tons of toxic trash called gadgets. Sure, sometimes they do optimizations. Generally, though, both Fb and Google keep exploring the physical limits to code bloat. Remember that one time that Fb hit the JVM class count limit?