I miss the days of software patches. The program might be 5 gb, but the update patch might be just a fraction of that, and it would apply itself to the installed files. Nowadays it seems more common (or at least increasingly) that the provider just makes you download the entire program in the latest version. So why is this done? It seems like a massive waste of bandwidth.
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for iOS and Mac apps, the entire app bundle is cryptographically signed, so that it’s easy to verify that the app has not been tampered with. This increases security and protects against malware, but also makes it difficult to release patches
every time Apple releases a new version of XCode – even a small delta change – I have to download the entire 6+ GB file to install it
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