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Agreed, the reference does not look reliable for the claim made.
Cheers,
Peter

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On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Dan Garry <dgarry@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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Hoi,
Today it is announced that for maps in Commons, maps that are known in
Wikidata we have now support for "geoshapes". Dan, you indicated nine days
agao that this is not on your road map. But it is there. Could you please
inform us how this can be used in Apple maps?
Thanks,
GerardM


https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-tech/2017-March/001106.html

On 21 March 2017 at 17:17, Dan Garry <dgarry@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On 21 March 2017 at 14:34, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Technical considerations are imho less relevant. What trumps it is
> > functionality.
>
>
> Technical considerations are very relevant if one is doing something
> technical, for example developing an iOS app or a maps tile service.
>
>
> > Our maps have to be good everywhere and as far as I know OSM
> > is superior in places where there is profit to be made from maps.
>
>
> If you choose to ignore the technical difficulties and half of my earlier
> email, then yes, that may be true.
>
>
> > Current maps world wide and historical maps are what we need. How would
> you
> > use the Apple maps for a map of the Ottoman empire?
> >
>
> Given that our maps service does not support this, and will not any time
> soon, this is very off-topic.
>
> Dan
>
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> Dan Garry
> Lead Product Manager, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
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