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by bredren 18 hours ago
Hasn't Apple's dev environment for iOS and its non-macos relatives always been about working with as little memory as possible?

It seems like Apple, of all companies has been about doing more with less memory.

That would seem to have helped in the % of BOM getting wrecked by the supply chain and discipline of developers in its ecosystem.

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Where do people get these goofy ideas about how Apple functions? Is there like a mythology section of the Wikipedia?
Lot of astroturfers, no doubt. Its irritating, its like, no, how about they change their behavior and people stop expecting you to treat their computers as computers, which should be personalizable on your side, not just theirs
Not really, they just don't support pagination, which is another matter, plenty of GB on those devices for Cordova, React Native, Webviews in general.