Do you think that 200 million Netflix users comprises the same set of people that are bandwidth constrained? I don't see how that's relevant to the point whatsoever.
A lot of people I know were using macs partly because you can still force them to only update at the library, Something you haven't been able to do with Windows for a long time.
I was just putting 1GB into context for 2021. My point is there is a substantial number of people that are perfectly fine using 1GB/hr for just one of the things they do online. So the requirement of a few GB every few months is not likely to even register for an even larger segment of the population, regardless of platform.
Of course there are those that this will matter to. And for those perhaps Apple, a premium brand, is not the best solution. But of course they will need to define “best” for their own context.
Edit: And of course there are contexts where the long upgrade time can matter a lot, like a help desk. They won’t care about the data but they may care about upgrade latency. Again I just don’t think the Magnitude of data is going to be an issue for Apple’s target demographic.
Well maybe then the problem is with the ISPs and the unusable service they provide. Maybe their customers deserve better. I'm sure macOS updates are not the only thing that will benefit from the proper internet connection. If you think about it – Apple is building for the future, not optimising for the past. On HN posts about crappy
ISPs are a regular occasion, but in this case the blame shifts on Apple for some reason. I agree, small delta updates would be the best, and I'm sure they'll get there, but let's be honest — 1, 2 or 3GBs is not a big difference with a proper connection.
