Ask HN: Why do Android apps take up so much disk?
The below numbers are just app storage (I imagine binary size on disk?):
Chrome (for reference, reasonable) - 187 MB
Capital One - 91 MB
Storage - 78 MB
Digital Secure (no idea what this is) - 69 MB
Email - 66 MB
Calendar - 28 MB
Contacts - 22 MB
Clock - 21 MB
Calculator (for reference, reasonable) - 1.7 MB
So I don't work in the mobile space - can someone explain to me why these (mostly stock) apps take up so much space on disk? How come my stock Clock app is 1/9th the size of Chrome?