Apple talks all the time about this being a "Post-PC" era. They talk about how you really don't need to connect your phone to your computer anymore (maybe syncing once a month at most), and for the most part, they're right. You can sync via wifi to your computer/iCloud. iCloud gives you access via wifi to all your stuff that won't fit on your phone/iPad. Podcasts can now be synced/subscribed to directly on the iOS devices. It's all beautiful.
Except when it's not.
Me, personally (again, that whole one user's experiences not dictating everyone else's), it's a mixed bag. I work somewhere where I'm sitting at a desk, staring at a computer screen for 8 hours a day. I have about 80GB of music. 45 or so is just from one band (a crap-ton of live recordings). Could I listen to that all in one charge/work day? Certainly not. But I like having all of my music available to me on-demand, as my tastes change frequently. I may go from listening to Metallica/Rammstein one minute, to wanting to hear Elton John/Bryan Adams, and back to Eminem/Immortal Technique. I don't like having to choose what to listen to before I leave the house.
So you're thinking: Remember iCloud you mentioned? Yeah, wifi sucks pretty much everywhere but my house. The music skips/stutters a lot as it's having to buffer. Where I work, the wifi's so bad, with about 80 people connecting to it at any given point, it's almost worth it to take a hit on the 4G usage just to get some music to stream. It's the same with Spotify/MOG. Hit or miss. I also have about 5 full 3 hour concerts, and who knows how many 4 hour/2.5 hour (O&A/Joe Rogan) podcasts.
128GB would do me a WORLD of good. Less choosing what to keep on the device, and more just going from one thing to the next, whenever I want.
Also, despite being a manly man (think Popeye, without the stick figure dame by his side), I'd love me a baby blue or pink/black iPhone 5s, thankyouverymuch.
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You will be missed, my friend.
