Hi,
One of the features of iOS 6 was incremental updates for apps, supposedly making updates significantly smaller as the App Store only needs to push out the changes.
However, whenever I look at the updates due for my iP6, I see the download size is around 98% of the full size quoted in the app store.
For example,
The Guardian (news app), update size 45.4MB, full size 47.7MB. The reason for the update is quoted as "bug fixes". However, I doubt even a few bug fixes would require an entire re-write of the code.
What's going on here?
Are developers not taking advantage of this?
Is the App Store responsible for detecting the size of the increment and not doing a good job?
Is the quoted App Update size misleading and actually downloading a much smaller amount in the background?
Not an issue, I'm just interested.
Thanks.
One of the features of iOS 6 was incremental updates for apps, supposedly making updates significantly smaller as the App Store only needs to push out the changes.
However, whenever I look at the updates due for my iP6, I see the download size is around 98% of the full size quoted in the app store.
For example,
The Guardian (news app), update size 45.4MB, full size 47.7MB. The reason for the update is quoted as "bug fixes". However, I doubt even a few bug fixes would require an entire re-write of the code.
What's going on here?
Are developers not taking advantage of this?
Is the App Store responsible for detecting the size of the increment and not doing a good job?
Is the quoted App Update size misleading and actually downloading a much smaller amount in the background?
Not an issue, I'm just interested.
Thanks.
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