Agreed, the reference does not look reliable for the claim made.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gergo
Tisza
Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2017 5:54 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using non-free elements vs our values (Apple Maps vs Wikipedia
iOS app)
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The size of your app can significantly reduce
downloads [1].
[1]:
https://segment.com/blog/mobile-app-size-effect-on-downloads/
That article seems super sketchy. They took a 3MB app, increased it to
100MB+, and interpolated the retention changes linearly. They even point
out that the drop in installs was mostly due to negative reviews (since they reverted the
app size and the installs didn't climb back up) and the reviews were mostly along the
line of "WTF is this simple calculator app a hundred megabytes?".
The Wikipedia app is 39MB and the SDK seems to add one MB per [2] which does not sound
like a big deal.
[2]
https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-mobile-polylines/
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