"...Golden Gate needed a whopping 17GB more space on the M1 MacBook Air, thanks to a mandatory multi-gigabyte language model download that kicks in automatically the first time you connect a freshly restored Golden Gate Mac to the Internet."
This is the main thing stopping me from updating iOS/macOS. It's completely unacceptable to park a bunch of space on my devices right when that storage is at its most expensive it's ever been.
My phone is on iOS 26, and even with Apple Intelligence turned off, there's ~13GB made unusable. My phone ran out of space while recording a bike trip, and yet the model I have no use for remained.
Yeah, and a pound of sugar cost 8oz of gold a few thousand years ago, so inflation isn't real and food insecurity is a myth.
If you want a fair comparison you should look at the price of storage at the capacity required for typical contemporaneous workloads. Don't quote numbers in the billions when that amount of storage didn't exist on the entire planet at the time.
this is pointless pedantry. there's an implicit "functionally equivalent, for modern (apple) devices" bit.
> It would really help perspective sometimes
It objectively and absolutely doesn't help this discussion at all. Even if taken as hyperbole, the frustration with Apple charging $200 for 256 added gigs, and filling up ~20gigs of it without consent or requirement, is unaffected by floppy prices in the 80s.
ProfessorLayton · · focus · HN ↗
This is the main thing stopping me from updating iOS/macOS. It's completely unacceptable to park a bunch of space on my devices right when that storage is at its most expensive it's ever been.
My phone is on iOS 26, and even with Apple Intelligence turned off, there's ~13GB made unusable. My phone ran out of space while recording a bike trip, and yet the model I have no use for remained.
robotresearcher · · focus · HN ↗
Most expensive it's been for a handful of years.
1TB of spinny disk cost a million dollars as recently as 1994, and half a billion dollars in 1980.
<a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...
nvme0n1p1 · · focus · HN ↗
If you want a fair comparison you should look at the price of storage at the capacity required for typical contemporaneous workloads. Don't quote numbers in the billions when that amount of storage didn't exist on the entire planet at the time.
robotresearcher · · focus · HN ↗
A Macintosh 128K with a FLOPPY DRIVE cost $7,500 in inflation adjusted dollars.
Can we please take a view of today that’s in a context of more than a few years? It would really help perspective sometimes.
nirava · · focus · HN ↗
> It would really help perspective sometimes
It objectively and absolutely doesn't help this discussion at all. Even if taken as hyperbole, the frustration with Apple charging $200 for 256 added gigs, and filling up ~20gigs of it without consent or requirement, is unaffected by floppy prices in the 80s.
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