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The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week

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IvanK_net · 1789572793 · focus · HN ↗
My tool is used by 1 million people a day <a href="https://www.photopea.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.photopea.com
This is the reason I never made a mobile version and all mobile users use it in a browser.
The biggest problem (bug) with this approach is that iOS limits the RAM usage to 2 GB per website. I have to tell many of my users to ditch their $1000 iPads and get a used $150 Macbook for better experience.
I think Apple does it on purpose <a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268816" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268816
1. IshKebab · 1789590554 · focus · HN ↗
  In fairness is that really a bug? All apps are deliberately limited to a couple of GB on Android (depending on how much total RAM you have).
  It would be pretty annoying if a random website can just DoS your phone by using all your RAM.
  1. daveoc64 · 1789604180 · focus · HN ↗
    Seems like the solution to the DoS concern is to just limit the site to whatever amount of RAM is currently available on the device - that's what every other browser/OS combination other than iOS seems to do without issue.
  2. IvanK_net · 1789648346 · focus · HN ↗
    When I run my website in Chrome on Android (with 8 GB of RAM), my website can get 6.5 GB of RAM.
    When I run my website in any browser on iOS (iPad with 16 GB of RAM), my website can get 1.88 GB of RAM.
    This much RAM might be needed only for a few seconds (computing a visual effect). A user is "focused" at just one app at a time. If a user uses my tool for hours, I think it makes sense to give them all the resources (CPU, GPU, RAM, ...)

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