{"id":18257,"date":"2017-06-28T15:36:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18257"},"modified":"2017-06-28T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:36:15","slug":"delta-updates-and-app-thinning-do-not-solve-the-apps-are-too-damn-big-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/delta-updates-and-app-thinning-do-not-solve-the-apps-are-too-damn-big-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Updates and App Thinning Do Not Solve the Apps-Are-Too-Damn-Big Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/the-apps-are-too-damn-big\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2017\/06\/25\/delta-updates-birchler\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/the-apps-are-too-damn-big\/\"><p>The internet is full of people who are both upset about these app sizes and those who think delta updates make this complaint void. I think it&rsquo;s important that people understand that the size you see on the Updates page in the App Store is not how much you are going to download but it&rsquo;s certainly not fair to say delta updates have fixed everything.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The fact [is] that someone could blow through 10% of their monthly data plan (2GB) just by updating Snapchat and Messenger once. This could be tough if you do it once, but Facebook updates Messenger all the time. They&rsquo;ve updated the app 5 times in the past month, which could work out to upwards of 400-500 MB over just a month.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Birchler (via John Gruber): The internet is full of people who are both upset about these app sizes and those who think delta updates make this complaint void. I think it&rsquo;s important that people understand that the size you see on the Updates page in the App Store is not how much you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,25,1162,31,1380,26,1382],"class_list":["post-18257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-iosapp","tag-snapchat"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18258,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18257\/revisions\/18258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}