I was thinking that the entire time I read HN User onlyrealcuzzo's comment.
Why, on Earth, would Apple ever want to solve the problem of Apps taking up more space? That's just not good business. Way better business right now to put R&D into increased memory access speeds.
Apple would need to have a different business model entirely for them to have a business case for fixing this. They may fix it because they just want to help out they AI guys? Maybe in the future they're getting money from the AI guys or something? So fixing it starts to make a lot of sense.
But all other things being equal, the money for Apple is in this not being fixed.
> Why, on Earth, would Apple ever want to solve the problem of Apps taking up more space?
To make their devices more pleasant / less frustrating to use.
They’ve got a long track record of introducing features that reduce app size, speed up installs, and reduce storage use from infrequently used apps - there’s no reason to believe they’d stop doing that except for cynical vitriol.
Why, on Earth, would Apple ever want to solve the problem of Apps taking up more space? That's just not good business. Way better business right now to put R&D into increased memory access speeds.
Apple would need to have a different business model entirely for them to have a business case for fixing this. They may fix it because they just want to help out they AI guys? Maybe in the future they're getting money from the AI guys or something? So fixing it starts to make a lot of sense.
But all other things being equal, the money for Apple is in this not being fixed.