Why are we not complaining about App sizes anymore?

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I found myself searching for available hard drive space on my MacBook Air today.
One of the biggest blocks of space occupiers is the Microsoft office suite.
The whole suite of Excel, Powerpoint, Work, OneNote, Teams and Outlook takes up a whooping 10.5 GB of space!

It's just word processors, spreadsheets, note taking, chatting and email client How can it take up so much space??

Well for one thing, each app contains a 500MB folder of fonts. The same fonts in each app. 6 x 500MB = 3GB of the exact same fonts that are probably not used by anyone anyway.

Why is this not a topic?

We keep getting more hard drive (SSD) space, more RAM, faster processors but it seems that (some) software engineers are hell bound on preventing any improvement in space and speed the hardware comes with.
We used to have limitations in floppy disc size, then CD size etc. and also network speed but now that we have super-hyper-fibre speeds and no physical media, it seems that giant sizes and bloat is here to stay.

 

[baconcat_8964]

Hardware evolvement gives redundancy for software. Software evolvement eats out unused hardware, pushing hardware keep moving forward. And that's the loop.

 

[Fishrrman]

No one can actually DO anything about bloated app sizes.

If you did complain, they'd say, "if you don't like, use someone else's app instead of ours"...