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‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] mPony@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

most phones now don’t support memory expansion

Well of course not. If phones supported memory expansion you would just buy more memory, instead of buying an entirely new phone Don't even get me started on how bloated these apps have become. I used Paperclip word processor on a Commodore-64; you can not convince me that your app needs to be 50+ Megs in size.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

I actually wrote my own text editor for the C-64

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And that's one of the benefits from open source apps. I have a very low end and dated phone, and yet I have more apps installed and hardware functionality than the average person, because I grab everything I can from f-droid. It's amazing how much smaller and performant everything is.

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Have you looked at Obtainium? It pulls apps directly from their release page, or f-droid repos.

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I see people mentioning obtainium, but never tried it. Will it give some relevant benefits over fdroid for low end devices?

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

No benefits regarding performance. But you get faster updates and more apps than on f-droid.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

You can't compare (what is arguably) the peak of human computing to modern phones.

...I miss the c64

Edit: fixed pique to peak. Sorry. Autocorrect got me again