Ten years ago your concern might be valid but in 2024, given that most people in the developed economies have ample amount of 4g/5g data plans with generous RAM/storage on their mobile phones, it makes more sense to just send them the whole DB once.
This is the same spirit as Electron vs native. Of course native uses less ram and is efficient but its not noticeable by the end user (because they dont care how its built). So we let developers write desktop apps in HTML/JS and end users do not notice usually until they open up task manager
We have abundance of data, memory, storage that continually drops in cost. It makes a lot of sense to simply download the DB once and then access it locally with optional syncing.
This is the future because we can't count on mobile phones to continuously maintain connectivity especially with limited data plans. Far better to simply allocate % of your fixed data plan and decide which local first app to install on your phone.
I live in a 4g/5g country (with 5g disabled on my phone because it seems to perform worse than 4g), with a 2gb/month data plan. I've usually stayed inside my data budget, but I'm cutting it a little close this month and I've blown past it a couple of times when I've forgotten to switch back to wifi. Sure, I live in a country where I can buy infinite data, but I don't see the point when I rarely use more than 2gb, and a 2gb plan is cheaper
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Ten years ago your concern might be valid but in 2024, given that most people in the developed economies have ample amount of 4g/5g data plans with generous RAM/storage on their mobile phones, it makes more sense to just send them the whole DB once.
This is the same spirit as Electron vs native. Of course native uses less ram and is efficient but its not noticeable by the end user (because they dont care how its built). So we let developers write desktop apps in HTML/JS and end users do not notice usually until they open up task manager
We have abundance of data, memory, storage that continually drops in cost. It makes a lot of sense to simply download the DB once and then access it locally with optional syncing.
This is the future because we can't count on mobile phones to continuously maintain connectivity especially with limited data plans. Far better to simply allocate % of your fixed data plan and decide which local first app to install on your phone.
I live in a 4g/5g country (with 5g disabled on my phone because it seems to perform worse than 4g), with a 2gb/month data plan. I've usually stayed inside my data budget, but I'm cutting it a little close this month and I've blown past it a couple of times when I've forgotten to switch back to wifi. Sure, I live in a country where I can buy infinite data, but I don't see the point when I rarely use more than 2gb, and a 2gb plan is cheaper