![]() But in this day and age of terabyte-sized hard disks selling for under $100, the primary reason to compress files is to speed transfers via the Internet. SmartSend and StuffIt Connect - The goal of compressing files is of course to make them consume less space. Include the Windows versions of both, and you can nearly double those numbers. While I was researching StuffIt’s reach in today’s world, Matthew Covington of Smith Micro told me that they served up roughly 2 million downloads of StuffIt Expander in the last year, and sold approximately 90,000 copies of StuffIt Deluxe 2009… on the Mac alone. I’ve never quite understood it – just because a tool is no longer as necessary as it once was doesn’t mean it isn’t useful for lots of people.Īnd don’t be misled – lots of people do use it. It’s interesting – although the Mac world as a whole no longer relies on StuffIt as much as it used to before Apple built Zip compression and expansion into Mac OS X, I often hear comments expressing an inexplicable disdain for StuffIt Deluxe. ![]()
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