[AndrewStephens]

>> their software also downloaded a 250MB update file every five minutes

> How on earth is a screen recording app 250 megabytes

How on earth is a screen recording app on a OS where the API to record the screen is built directly into the OS 250 megabytes?

It is extremely irresponsible to assume that your customers have infinite cheap bandwidth. In a previous life I worked with customers with remote sites (think mines or oil rigs in the middle of nowhere) where something like this would have cost them thousands of dollars per hour per computer per site.

[esalman]

> It is extremely irresponsible to assume that your customers have infinite cheap bandwidth

Judging by the price of monitor stands, I wouldn't be surprised for Apple to make such assumptions.

[dchftcs]

For a long time iOS did not have features to limit data usage on WiFi. They did introduce an option more recently for iPhone, but it seems such an option is not available to MacOS. Windows supported it as far as I could remember using it with tethering.

[JCharante]

screen studio is pretty great, it has a lot of features and includes a simple video editor