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Bloated

Okay, so I have a bone to pick. I'm just going to drop it here in the dumping grounds that is O-Lit instead.

It seems that everywhere I look, if it's related to proper desktop or windows software there is a HUGE amount of bloating. Things that should fit in ~10MB are 100, and 100 ends up in the 1000.

Or in the case of instagram. An app with less features, is approx 6 times the size. Going from a 36ish MB download on Android to over 220MB on windows 10.

The user experience was also sub-par.

I understand this from the perspective of "Phones have limited space, desktops have that exponential amount more".
But I'd argue that it's not only a lazy assumption that the next end user actually has that space to spare but it's also a major inconvenience to someone like me who is using that space to create content. Putting in that extra mile to optimise that content so that you can put it on your phone and enjoy it without spending heaps on your data bill, or deleting it in favour of another cute doggo pic.

Por que no los dos? Why settle for one of two things when you could have both. Bake a fancy cake that looks awesome and also tastes awesome.

It's not just apps like instagram either. nor is it really limited to the desktop space. There are a lot of games and applications that consuming increasing amounts of memory space for little benefit and common mobile apps getting filled with poorly designed and unnecessary features.

If you're reading this: I want us to change. Do the extra steps, compress the images, cut the bloatware features.

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