47MB is about 3x the space once required by a widely used commercial graphical operating system. It was even enough to also include Microsoft Word with plenty of space left.

How far we’ve fallen.

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leptons 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You're living in the past. Hard drives are now up to 36TB. Hard drives are always getting bigger. 47MB isn't worth worrying about, at all.

	▲	mlhpdx 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is such a weird rationalization. You’d sell a kidney to be a 10x developer but making an app 1000000x smaller isn’t worth a thought? Maybe that’s why the former hasn’t happened.
	▲	superb_dev 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Yup and those 36TB are cheap and common! Right?
	▲	wolpoli 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		While it is true that hard drives have large amount of storage, it is unlikely that are any Mac with a 36TB hard drive attached that needs to overcome WiFi time limit.

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charcircuit 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

47 MiB only costs $0.0002. What has fallen is storage price.