First World problem but I’ve got an issue with the sheer size of phone apps.
How the f can a simple web browser be 1.6gb ffs?
All of 'em are massive (the ones that you can’t see too) and its just bonkers.
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The sizes are how much data the app has stored perhaps, thats the only explanation I can think of
Going in to settings and clearing cache will help free up space (for a while).
Web browsers do a lot of stuff these days. They’re a long way from the original apps that just retrieved HTML pages and displayed them. These days they can be running complex web applicationsm which requires a lot of code and resources and can result in large app sizes. Also, browsers often include features such as built-in developer tools, extensions, and support for multiple languages. It all takes space.
My first web browser was a dial up aol disk trial on a cd on the front of a pc mag. I’m pretty sure it was only 100mb max BUT yer right of course.
Its just that size is obnoxious in my opinion now!
As for the complex algorithms? Summed up in one word really. Advertising.
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Ad blockers, maybe. 
All the ad content and tracking arrives in the page. My forsst browser was Netscape 1.0. It was pretty dreadful and there wasn’t much content anyway. This was backwhen most pages were just basically formatted text and you couldn’t even find a maps on the net But there were no ads, no Facebook and no surveillance. Happy days.
Memory is so cheap and compact these days that no one has much interest in keeping the sizes of the apps down. That’s the basic reason for it.
Would I be correct in saying a lot of code is written badly these days. It could be optimised or made more efficient but developers have got lazy due to having all this power and memory?
What you need is some powerful AI company to get their bots to rewrite it, make it slicker and more efficient… save a load of space…
I think Cyberdyne Systems is one of the tech leaders in this field.
Greek Islands drainage. Can’t wait to not have to do Bog roll origami after having a dump…!
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It depends. For things like browsers i expect the standards are very high. The compilers may be optimised for speed rather than size but that would only be a small part of it anyway. It’s a trade-off and storae is cheap these days.
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Not from Apple its not 
Nothing is cheap from Apple. 
https://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/motorbike-crime/
I realise people don’t give a feck these days but why did no one do anything 
The scores were there for ages
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It seems at one point someone did approach and got threatened with the brick they were using.
There were four of them, all wearing crash helmets. I don’t think I would have tried to intervene either. It’s not worth getting your head caved in for.
I agree. I would have phoned the police, though, and I would be surprised if somebody didn’t. If so, the police response was obviously not fast enough.
Surely it’s got to be easy to catch the one yielding the brick, it looked like he didn’t have gloves on and he handled the disc lock and left it there. Fingerprints and DNA? He must have previous.
Because I’m a coward, but also 16 stone, I think that those scroats looked “takeable” and as such I’d have had no issue grabbing the one in the silver helmets chin/helmet and dragging him in to the shop and sitting on him til the police arrived. Who knows, his finger may have got broken in the struggle.
Much bigger than them though, I think I’d also steer clear …
But it does make your blood boil.
That’s the impression I got. If someone challenged them I reckon they would have disappeared quickly. I would have been tempted to get some fly spray or something from the shop and squirted it in their eyes then a kick in the bollox…but I am sat at home on my sofa!
Agreed … I am also comfortable on my sofa…
But something’s gone wrong with society that we accept this…