File compression on the Mac has been around since nearly as long has the line itself has. Here are our top picks for squeezing files down as small as they can go on macOS and iOS.In 1987 - just a few years after the birth of GUI computing and the first color Mac, the Macintosh II, developer Raymond Lau wrote a file compression utility called StuffIt, which later became a commercial app.Even before StuffIt, there was Packit for the Mac written by Harry Chesley. Read more
