Though, I won't be surprised if they try to force devs to use their models for "privacy" (and not monopolistic reasons, of course).
Why, on Earth, would Apple ever want to solve the problem of Apps taking up more space? That's just not good business. Way better business right now to put R&D into increased memory access speeds.
Apple would need to have a different business model entirely for them to have a business case for fixing this. They may fix it because they just want to help out they AI guys? Maybe in the future they're getting money from the AI guys or something? So fixing it starts to make a lot of sense.
But all other things being equal, the money for Apple is in this not being fixed.
To make their devices more pleasant / less frustrating to use.
They’ve got a long track record of introducing features that reduce app size, speed up installs, and reduce storage use from infrequently used apps - there’s no reason to believe they’d stop doing that except for cynical vitriol.
I occasionally post decompositions of public .ipa's on the App Store, and I'm looking forward to seeing how these change over the next year.
On top of the already hefty markup, they don't even take storage capacity into consideration for trade-ins.
Only half joking. I really do think the majority of that revenue will be going away.