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Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by daigoba66 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #4

The 16/64/128 GB lineup for the iPhone 6 ensures this is only going to get worse. Why they didn't bump up to 32 GB as the base level is beyond me.

My cynical view is that this is a way to increase the price of the iPhone without it seeming like it.

For example, in the past I've always purchased the "base" model. First 8GB then 16GB. But now, for me, 16GB is probably 1/2 my ideal storage size, so I'd probably purchase the more expensive 64GB model.

The new "base" model is effectively $100 more expensive.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by berberous »

ceejayoz wrote: post #4

The 16/64/128 GB lineup for the iPhone 6 ensures this is only going to get worse. Why they didn't bump up to 32 GB as the base level is beyond me.

Almost everyone I know was bumping up to the 16GB limit on their iPhones, largely because by this point people have 2-4 years worth of photos on their devices.

If Apple moved to 32/64/128, nearly everyone would have gotten the base model. Instead, for the first time ever, people like myself, and even my mother, decided to bump up to the next tier, which is not only plenty of room for most, but 4x the storage instead of 2x (actually, it's an even higher multiplier when you factor in the storage for the OS itself).

In other words, margins.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by scrumper »

You can turn on iCloud Photo Library (Beta) which does pretty much exactly this - keeps low-res images on the phone and keeps the high res original in iCloud. (Since it's an Apple cloud-based storage product I don't trust it completely, so I also have Dropbox Photo Sync).

Don't really understand what the Steve Jobs email is doing in there either.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by quonn »

millzlane wrote: post #15

Why buy a product from a company that doesn't care about your choice? An example would be how just about every smartphone on the market is capable of MicroSD storage but the iphone is not. I have a 128GB SD card in my phone.

Well, my choice is a phone _without_ an SD card reader. So why would I buy "just about every smartphone on the market", which does not respect my choice?

Memory is not expensive. It would be far easier for Apple to simply put in 128GB by default, not an SD card reader.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by aroch »

millzlane wrote: post #15

Why buy a product from a company that doesn't care about your choice? An example would be how just about every smartphone on the market is capable of MicroSD storage but the iphone is not. I have a 128GB SD card in my phone.

Erm, most Android flagships (and many non-flagship phones) don't support expandable storage and Google is going out of their way to remove support from Android itself.

Re: Dear Apple, why is my iPhone always full?

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Post by baldfat »

scrumper wrote: post #14

You can turn on iCloud Photo Library (Beta) which does pretty much exactly this - keeps low-res images on the phone and keeps the high res original in iCloud. (Since it's an Apple cloud-based storage product I don't trust it completely, so I also have Dropbox Photo Sync). Don't really understand what the Steve Jobs email is doing in there either.

Why don't you use Google+ photos? It really is the best thing ever and your photos never count against your storage.

You get unlimited photos backup on you can just delete any photos on your phone and just look them up on Google+ which has the best photo search ever and also has albums, edit and folders.

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