Say an app has a download size of 3 GB, do you need 3 GB of memory or 3 GB of storage?
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I understand your confusion and it is due to bad naming. Firstly you are right that we often differ between Random Access Memory which gets wiped every time you reboot and permanent storage like a drive. In a computer we often shorten RAM to just memory. However in cell phones they used the term memory to market the permanent storage as early phones they used Programmable Read Only Memory for permanent storage. But as phones have become more like computers the terms are easy to mix. The same term can mean either RAM or PROM (later developed into Flash memory and then SSD) depending on context.
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