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>Also iOS apps are so large this won't be practical at all on cellular data.

They don't have to be. For example Tweetbot, which is a fully functional app, is only about 7MB. It's not hard to imagine that a single screen of an iOS app specifically optimized for space could be only a fraction as large – considerably smaller than the average site these days (10MB+).



They're big because of swift. Tweetbot is small because it's still only Objective-C.


That should be changing as more apps drop older iOS versions and stop bundling Swift.


Exactly, an app of mine targeting iOS13+ weighs in around 2mb.




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