It's not just Gmail. Most of the popular apps on iOS are literally 10x bigger than their Android versions. It's hard to find a popular iOS app that's smaller than an Electron app.
They use those videos on the lock screen for example.
Not saying it’s a good idea that they ship all of those big video files. Believe me, my MBP M1 with 256GB SSD barely has space left even when I go and clean up various files I no longer need.
Foolish as I was, I believed that doubling the amount of storage compared to the MacBook Air I had before it would leave me with plenty of space for years to come. In reality it did not take much time before I was using most of the storage available.
So when I bought my latest iPhone not long after I bought that MBP, I opted for the iPhone model that has 1TB storage. And at least on my phone I consistently have a good amount of space left. Every couple of months I move pictures and videos from the phone to an external hard drive. So since it was only a week or so since last I moved pictures and videos from the phone, I am currently using 350 GB of storage on the phone.
Out of those currently used 350 GB, just under 40GB is accounted for by music I have downloaded in the SoundCloud app, which is ok even though maybe a little bit silly on my part. I have it set to download all songs that I favourite, and I sometimes manually download whole albums and whole playlists. Not because I want to listen to all of it offline but so that when I am offline I still have a wide selection to choose from. For example on the occasion that I fly by plane once or twice a year.
Another 20GB of storage space is used by maps I’ve downloaded in the Organic Maps app to have locally saved maps for various places I’ve been to or want to go to. Again, a little bit silly to keep that much map data even for the places that I am not going to visit for at least 6-12 months, and which will need to be updated again when I do go there to ensure I have up to date maps. But all in all, I can “afford it” with a terabyte total storage. And both the songs in SoundCloud and the map data is data that I could manually go through and delete as much of as I’d like to if I ever were in a pinch and needed to free up space.
At times I will hoover around 700 GB of storage used on the phone if it’s been a while since I moved pictures and videos and I have filmed some longer videos.
My phone being a few years old now however, it doesn’t have USB-C. So it takes a bit of time to move pictures and videos from it. Even if I transfer over the network it doesn’t seem much faster than USB 2.0, weirdly.
Some LaTeX, but not all, especially for larger equations. I will admit it has gotten a lot better in recent updates, since it seemed thoroughly broken for quite a while in its early days.
I haven't seen video but it does have voice. And similarly I don't think it's screen-share, it's just editor state syncing, so live collaboration. Still quite a lot.
ST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE. I wish there were something like VSCode that is very modular but written in native. But VSCode is good enough and it is my daily driver.
No, that doesn't matter. I think you should be looking for how quickly it can get you a working environment for your favorite language not how long it takes to boot up once per reboot. If you want features the bits have to live somewhere. Look at it like a trade off, if you're just going to look at it, by all means, take a memory dump. But I find that a little bit hard to work with.
For me, as long as it's better than alternatives it's good enough. Especially if it's not running JS.
RAM does matter, especially when you have web browser with multiple tabs opened at the same time. Sublime Text or Notepad++ are powerful, yet much more lightweight than Zed. Not to mention Vim/Emacs.
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