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Webdevs: "native apps don't care about bundle size, why should we?" Nintendo: "we keep the Switch launcher under 200kb"
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Is that meant to be impressive? That's just their start screen? Controlling the entire runtime, OS etc gives them a lot of flexibility.
This tweet is missing so much context that it seems deliberately aggravating. Similar rhetoric has always came from Chrome DevRel and it doesn't resonate as well as you think.
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Wasn't meant to be aggravating, and looking at the tweet it seems more tone-deaf in hindsight. I was just musing that I hadn't heard of native app developers using a size budget strategy until coming across this.
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FWIW I don't think it's fair to classify any tweet from me as being representative of the views of Chrome or Chrome DevRel. I believe that I should be able to casually tweet about web stuff without representing some higher level views, just as you do.
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I'm not sure what you're taking issue with. I've seen time and time again that a lot of the apps in non-western markets seriously care about initial download size to the point it's a competitive area where the web is in most part a better platform.
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App size shaming with comparisons to outliers as evidence that webdevs are just being lazy or don't want to
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