Are apps these days bloated?

[jwolf6589]

Someone posted a picture of an old TV show in which the star of the show was using Mac OS 7.x. I remember those days and we had word processors, spreadsheets, games, image editors, email programs, and the like in those days. Apps had to be well written and small because they had to fit on a floppy disk, or a series of floppy disks to install onto the HDD. These days apps are very bloated and are excessive in size and the amount of resources they take to run, and its not like they are a ton better than the word processors we had available in the mid 1990's which ran in the megabytes considering disk space and RAM used. So tell me are apps very bloated these days?

 

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These days apps are very bloated and are excessive in size and the amount of resources they take to run, and its not like they are a ton better than the word processors we had available in the mid 1990's which ran in the megabytes considering disk space and RAM used.

That is not true at all. Office apps do quite a bit more in 2019 than they did in the 1990’s.

 

[sracer]

Someone posted a picture of an old TV show in which the star of the show was using Mac OS 7.x. I remember those days and we had word processors, spreadsheets, games, image editors, email programs, and the like in those days. Apps had to be well written and small because they had to fit on a floppy disk, or a series of floppy disks to install onto the HDD. These days apps are very bloated and are excessive in size and the amount of resources they take to run, and its not like they are a ton better than the word processors we had available in the mid 1990's which ran in the megabytes considering disk space and RAM used. So tell me are apps very bloated these days?

Well to quote someone in response to the claim of bloated apps....

So what. The apps launch very fast on my old 2012 Mac with a SSD and I have plenty of disk space left. I like 2019.