Instagram has become the latest app to get the so-called lite treatment – a stripped-back, cut-down reaction to the increasingly over-complicated, bloat-filled apps we’re being asked to swallow on a daily basis from the big app developers.
The new Instagram Lite comes in under 1MB, making it just a fraction of the full-fat Instagram’s 84MB. The only things you can’t do with the lite version of the app are to post videos or send direct messages. Applying filters, posting photos and viewing stories are all included.
We’ve never had so many apps from the big brands. Facebook has more than 20, and that’s before you include those from Facebook’s other products, such as the six from Instagram, three from WhatsApp, one from Oculus, another from Onavo, the tbh Q&A app … the list goes on.
It isn’t just the sheer quantity of apps that is threatening to drown our poor smartphones either. Most of them have ballooned in size becoming bloated messes, filled with feature after feature that you probably don’t use, and taking up far too much space and clogging up your phone in the process.
For more read the full of article at The Guardian
