Quantcast Cheap Ass Gamer - View Single Post - Apple iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad) -- Ongoing Sales
View Single Post
Old 07-22-2012, 03:51 AM   #111
Quote:
Originally Posted by fujishig View Post
I've noticed that you sometimes need almost double the space to download something, I have no idea why.
Quote:
Originally Posted by outphase View Post
It's because the entire app is download, then it is installed. You need at least double to download and install a new app.
This, and also I don't really know for certain, but I always assumed that app downloads are compressed to save on bandwidth, and then are uncompressed on install. That would certainly account for at least some of the discrepency, anyway.