I really wish the author had excluded the $5 issue altogether, because for me, it's completely irrelevant. It's all the other factors that drive me nuts. * Dow

I really wish the author had excluded the $5 issue altogether, because for me, it's completely irrelevant. It's all the other factors that drive me nuts. * Download a large 4.5GB file * Spend a decent amount of time installing XCode * Sacrifice 15GB of disk space to an app they likely won't use I upgraded to a 256 GB SSD in January. This means that every GB counts on my disk. I never launch XCode. There are a couple of utilities included that are useful, but I literally never use any of the XCode tools, and I have no intention of developing an iOS application. Running DaisyDisk against my /Developer folder shows that 8.4 GB of the space is occupied by "Platforms", which contains iOS related platform and simulator files. For developers who don't develop specifically for OS X/iOS, there is a lot of baggage here. I'd still happily pay the $5 if I could get a trimmed down "XCode Express" install that didn't include any of the platform target stuff. As it stands now, I'm afraid to delete it because I don't want to go through the hassle of downloading and reinstalling (however you do that) such a large package.