I'm aware that my experiences do not define everyone's, but I consider myself an average user, and I do not see apple offering an expansion of its storage capacities, without a significant price bump, for the few people who need more space. An iPhone is not meant to be a laptop, and an iPad is not a home media storage hub, people need to realize their are devices, called computers, that are designed with that capacity, and that apple will not likely tailor to their needs when it would raise prices significantly and sell very few units. Exponential growth of device storage can not continue to match linear growth in price.
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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