Why does Android in particular, and operating systems in general, take more resources these days? What changed? What was added in particular?
I basically have multiple questions:
First and foremost, the most important one: Android used to take up a couple gigabytes less storage, what was added to it after Jelly Bean that got it from 5 GB or less to about 20 GB?
I would also like to know how Windows and Linux, for example Debian changed. Are there parallels?
But you can also restrict your answer to Android, this is the main one I would like to know....
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I basically have multiple questions:
First and foremost, the most important one: Android used to take up a couple gigabytes less storage, what was added to it after Jelly Bean that got it from 5 GB or less to about 20 GB?
I would also like to know how Windows and Linux, for example Debian changed. Are there parallels?
But you can also restrict your answer to Android, this is the main one I would like to know....
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