Yeah, it's no good. I have a 16 GB model. I've bought into the iCloud-powered photos syncing, but yet somehow there is never space on my phone. The whole point was to automatically move photos to the cloud, yet 9/10 times I open my camera, it says "Not enough space to take a photo".
16GB Is a Bad User Experience
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#12Apple buys their Flash chips, right? With all the advancements in Flash technology lately, I'm surprised their suppliers aren't offering to just swap out higher-capacity chips on their orders for the same price in order to keep a giant customer like Apple on a current, rather than legacy, chip fab.
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#13He bought an iphone 6s as a testing device that would spend most of its life in a desk drawer! I hope this was a company expense or something? One of those would be like a weeks wages for me. I can't understand why people pay so much for smart phones anyway. And if your idiotic phone runs out of memory at the top of some mountain, "the moment isn't missed forever", the moment gets missed because you're mucking about…
I couldn't even read any more of the arricle after that. I have a 16GB as well and something similar has happened to me on more than one occasion. When it does, I put the phone away for the rest of the trip and enjoy the hell out of the time with my family. None of those moments are missed.
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#14Yeah, it's no good. I have a 16 GB model. I've bought into the iCloud-powered photos syncing, but yet somehow there is never space on my phone. The whole point was to automatically move photos to the cloud, yet 9/10 times I open my camera, it says "Not enough space to take a photo".
This is interesting. I'm in the same situation and I'm about to make the same move. I've tried Carousel by Dropbox and it does an excellent job in keeping space low, while still giving me access to the pictures. I'm now considering iCloud Photo Library for a more integrated experience, but from my first attempts Carouse works way better.
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#15He bought an iphone 6s as a testing device that would spend most of its life in a desk drawer! I hope this was a company expense or something? One of those would be like a weeks wages for me. I can't understand why people pay so much for smart phones anyway. And if your idiotic phone runs out of memory at the top of some mountain, "the moment isn't missed forever", the moment gets missed because you're mucking about…
I couldn't even read any more of the arricle after that. I have a 16GB as well and something similar has happened to me on more than one occasion. When it does, I put the phone away for the rest of the trip and enjoy the hell out of the time with my family. None of those moments are missed.
I guess Apple can use that as a slogan: "Phones so unreliable you'd rather spend the time with your family!"
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#16Can't you just add a SD cart to it?
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#17Yeah, it's no good. I have a 16 GB model. I've bought into the iCloud-powered photos syncing, but yet somehow there is never space on my phone. The whole point was to automatically move photos to the cloud, yet 9/10 times I open my camera, it says "Not enough space to take a photo".
Check which apps are being space hogs. Go to Settings->General->Usage->Manage Storage. Some apps like Twitter don't delete their caches. So you have to delete the app and reinstall it to reclaim the space.
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#18He bought an iphone 6s as a testing device that would spend most of its life in a desk drawer! I hope this was a company expense or something? One of those would be like a weeks wages for me. I can't understand why people pay so much for smart phones anyway. And if your idiotic phone runs out of memory at the top of some mountain, "the moment isn't missed forever", the moment gets missed because you're mucking about…
https://xkcd.com/1314/
good point - but experiencing goes beyond visual perception which is what constraining yourself to the perspective of your cam narrows it down to.
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#19This would all be trivially solved if Apple would just put a goddamn SD card slot in it.
Storage size as sole model differentiation is sooo 2001. At this point it genuinely makes Apple look out of touch in a market where every other flagship quality model doesn't bother with it and includes an SD slot, partly I suspect because it's just saner from a production and inventory standpoint even besides the consumer benefits.