Your apps are about to get bigger and better

Apple has decided to double to size limit on apps sold through the App Store, meaning that new apps can be twice as large -- and therefore twice a media-rich -- as today's offerings.

The update, reported by Apple Insider, increases the maximum file size for apps submitted by developers to 4 GB, from the previous limit of 2 GB. That means that apps can contain that much more content, which could be especially meaningful when it comes to graphics-heavy games.

The change brings Apple in line with Google, which upped the size of Android apps to 4 GB two years ago.

It also comes at a pivotal time, as only months ago, many iPhones could hardly handle apps at the size they are now. Apple was the focus of a lawsuit earlier this year when users realized that its new operating system version, iOS 8, released in September, was taking up 80 percent of the memory on 16 GB iPhones, iPads and iPods. The company released an update last month that reduced the storage required for the operating system, freeing up space.

Space that might soon get used up twice as fast.