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Three things of note:

* It's really pretty, which makes perfect sense given the pedigrees of who was involved in its creation (http://www.mikematas.com/ and http://www.atebits.com, among others)

* The IPA file is huge given what it does. It seems like the bulk of the 50.4MB download is consumed by the completely unnecessary first-launch video.

* I found the app difficult to use, which is especially surprising given the pedigrees of who was involved in its creation. The process of switching between different data feeds was unintuitive to me, and I felt like there several instances where it simply failed to respond to my touches (I have an iPhone 5s, so device performance shouldn't be a problem).

Anyway, I promptly deleted it. I'll probably try it again in a couple months.




looking at the unzipped ipa file, it looks like a solid 40.7 MB of the app is just the binary ! another 9.8MB is the FBMessenger assets.


That's wild.




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