Re:Windows Package Manager 1.1
by Isthatablackgsd on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:03PM
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> Space is cheap.
That is subjective. Yes generally the drive storage is cheap. Apple storage in other hands are not cheap at all and charging a premium for it. Looking in MacBook Pro catalog, they are charging $200 for 513 GB SSD to 2 TB for $800. Most of the SSD of that range is in $50 - $150 USD. Drive storage is cheap, Apple storage are not cheap.
Even at those inflated prices storing Google Chrome itself is $0.20. Most libraries aren't 500mb.
If you want to use your device for about 6 years, you have to consider how big these apps are going to be in 6 years. Google Chrome is not going to be 50mb in 6 years.
It's 500MB today; would be fun to see a graph of how it has changed over time. It looks like Chrome 1 was 9MB (for Windows)
But once you step outside of that it can get fun real fast.
And many things now basically do what Apple does anyway and bundle all libraries, etc with each app - Go does this explicitly I think. Space is cheap.