Use a lot of memory...

I have been using Konfabulator for a few weeks now and recently noticed how much memory it uses. with six widgets open it was consuming just over 75 megs! It's a great utility but the memory usage seems very high.

Then after looking a bit closer at what all was running on my tablet - I noticed that Konfabulator isn't alone... the applications that were bundled with my PC for things like monitoring my wireless status, custom power management profiles, etc. were eating another 50 megs... MSN Messenger has another 22 megs (for buddy list?) and activesync another 4 or so...

I know each of these are relatively small but it all adds up... do developers just not care as much about memory consumption as they used to?