Bloat makes new software slower, not new features. This is confirmed by newer versions of Firefox or KDE that do not get as much slower as iOS, if at all.
> Bloat makes new software slower, not new features
False. New features can make all other software slower. A clear example is Apple intelligence, a new feature which runs an LLM on-device and uses 1-2GB of RAM. The large amount of RAM it uses would otherwise be dedicated to apps instead as a cache. Enabling Apple intelligence makes every other app run slower.
The Apple intelligence LLM also takes up 7 GB of storage on device.
> newer versions of Firefox or KDE that do not get as much slower as iOS
Newer versions of Firefox on iOS are approaching 400MB in download size, which is over a 10x increase from a decade ago.
