>RAM and SSDs cost a small fortune>Perfect opportunity for software companies to earn some goodwill with customers and a competitive advantage, by releasing new smaller and leaner versions of their programs>Literally nobody does it, software keeps getting more and more bloatedWe're doomed aren't we?
>>109132821>new smaller and leaner versions of their programsBut how does that make shareholder profits?
>>109132821I could start selling a lean calculator.app this week, should I do it?
>>109132851win32calc.exe is already less than 1MB sorry
suckless?
>>109132865I can do 500kb and have it show up in the start menu unlike deprecated legacy cruft hidden in /system32?
>>109132841This is an example with hardware, but AMD coasted and got this far on goodwill. >look we're still supporting AM4, meanwhile Intel changed 3 sockets But that's probably a very abstract concept that boomers can't comprehend unless it can be quantified and put on a PowerPoint presentation. >>109132869I mean like browsers, or one of the messaging apps, or paid software that's competing with other suites. It'd be a perfect opportunity for Firefox to differentiate itself from all the Chromium forks and become relevant again.
>code is supposedly free now with LLMs>nobody uses them to remove all the bloat from their app and speed them up by 10 times
>>109133135This too of course.
>>109133135>LLMs>removing bloat instead of multiplying itpick one and only one
Software and hardware devs are all in on the 2030 subscription only computing.China saying nah to the market should tell you all you need to know if this is planned by the powers that be.
>>109133279if you become 10 times more inefficient due to unnecessary work but use c or rust over python, you still gained almost an order of magnitude of speed improvement
>>109132903Firefox will never recover.
>>109135875Yes I know, but I'm using it for the sake of the argument. If they were competent they could seize the opportunity, but they won't.
>goodwillGoodwill doesn't make money, so it's not worth pursuing
>>109132821Frieren sitting on my lap while I pat her and she eats bread.
>>109135894That's like saying marketing doesn't make money.
>>109135905how would google profit off optimising chrome?
>>109133318Sadly this is the direction we are headed.Some companies are now giving their employees the cheapest thin client / internet only machines they can procure and having them login to their employee vps which is beefier.Accounting loves it because the vps are opex and not capex and the capex of the cheap internet only machines can be below a threshold that they can expense immediately.
>>109135948Since they're already in a dominant position with no trend of losing users to competitors, they probably won't see benefits, but it's an opportunity for competitors. But I remember when they launched Chrome, the marketing was focused on its speed improvements over competitors.
the web is unfixable and the majority of the problem
