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2 articles tagged “mobile apps”.

A vintage floppy disk rests beside a smartphone displaying a compact application window.

The 1.44 MB Limit Forces Engineering Hygiene Back Into Mobile Apps

A revived floppy disk standard caps downloads at 1.44 MB, stripping cross-platform runtimes and forcing rapid cold starts. The constraint reveals what happens when size dictates architecture.

May 29, 20263 min read

Close-up photograph of a person wearing a modern smartwatch displaying a colorful fitness tracking interface on the screen.

Design

Google Retires Fitbit App for AI Coach, Breaking User Workflows

Google has folded the Fitbit app into Google Health, pushing an AI coach to the foreground and burying raw metrics behind nested menus. The rollout breaks third-party sync and signals a closed-loop platform optimized for new hardware.

May 26, 20263 min read