If an apple update fixes a few bugs in the code. How come the update can be over 4GB? Wouldn’t they just push certain aspects?
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Imagine you published a 1000 page textbook.
There’s a mistake in one paragraph of chapter two. Fixing it requires adding three more sentences, but that makes that chapter spill onto a second page.
Now every single page after that in the entire book has a different page number. The entire table of contents and index are different, and hundreds of other pages that say “turn to page X” have changed.
So even though you only added three sentences, you pretty much have to send everyone a whole new book.
That’s mostly what’s going on. A small change to a piece of software ends up changing nearly the whole thing.
That’s on top of other reasons people mentioned.
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