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Re: McDonald's App

From Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: McDonald's App
Date 2018-12-15 05:26 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
> McDonald's in Austraila is ceasing the use of cardboard loyalty cards, 
> then give one in six coffees 'free', with this only being available 
> using their ap.
> 
> So, I bit the bullet and installed it, particularly given that my very 
> old and slow smartphone died, and I had to buy a new one, which is 
> considerably faster (i.e. actually usable).
> 
> The ap occupies 72MB of storage.
> 
> 72MB! How in God's name can an ap for ordering burgers and coffee take 
> up 72MB?

1MB is for handling the 'loyalty cards' portion of the app -- 71MB is 
used for all the user trackers and push advertising code bundled with 
the app.

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McDonald's App Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2018-12-15 11:46 +1100
  Re: McDonald's App Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-12-15 01:31 +0000
  Re: McDonald's App Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2018-12-15 05:26 +0000
    Re: McDonald's App Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-04-15 17:17 +1000
  Re: McDonald's App Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2018-12-15 17:04 +1100
    Re: McDonald's App Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2018-12-15 03:25 -0400
  Re: McDonald's App Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2018-12-16 21:06 +0000

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