When I say I use iTunes in the cloud, it means I delete apps when I don't need them, knowing they will be in the cloud for me to download at home when I want them. I don't need to keep all my movies on my phone because I can really only watch one on any given day, without getting distracted. I don't have iTunes Match, and I don't download over data. For someone with 1000+ songs, they might need some more space, but at that point they really should look into an iPod classic, and keeping their songs on there, with their favorites also on their iPhone. I'm just saying that apple is not likely to release a 128gb iPhone. Maybe in ipad, maybe an iPod, but iPhones are expensive enough as is, and they will not want to produce a phone that is not going to sell many units. I also believe we will be looking at a $600 subsidized, $1050 unsubsidized price tag.
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iOS 6.1 Beta 5 Code Hints at Upcoming 128 GB Devices
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When I say I use iTunes in the cloud, it means I delete apps when I don't need them, knowing they will be in the cloud for me to download at home when I want them. I don't need to keep all my movies on my phone because I can really only watch one on any given day, without getting distracted. I don't have iTunes Match, and I don't download over data. For someone with 1000+ songs, they might need some more space, but at that point they really should look into an iPod classic, and keeping their songs on there, with their favorites also on their iPhone. I'm just saying that apple is not likely to release a 128gb iPhone. Maybe in ipad, maybe an iPod, but iPhones are expensive enough as is, and they will not want to produce a phone that is not going to sell many units. I also believe we will be looking at a $600 subsidized, $1050 unsubsidized price tag.
On the contrary, just disputing those that have a problem with people wanting more storage based on their own needs and observations.
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Ugh, with as crappy as cell towers are? I hate "the cloud". It's a server. I'd much rather not have my music randomly skip or buffer, or eat away at my ridiculously limited bandwidth cap. Plus, 128GB is not a huge amount by any means. Hell, 32 should have been made the standard on the basic model a long time ago.
I'm not filling up 32GB. Please tell me what non-smart phone I can buy that will allow me to do the following:
Tag songs on the radio and buy them on the spot
Take good quality pictures and HD video, and be able to text them and/or upload them to FB from the device
Web browse
Find the nearest redbox and reserve a movie
Find new places to eat out that I have not tried yet. Particularly important if I'm on travel.
Turn-by-turn directions
Be able to use as a music player
Access Netflix
Scan bar-codes to get immediate reviews and prices for products I'm about to purchase.
Tether my laptop
There's a lot more I do with my iPhone, but I'll stop there.
Really?
What about those of us who do organize and clean up our stuff, but it's still bigger than {16GB/32GB/64GB/128GB/<arbitrary>GB}?
My music libray is around 440GB - even a 512GB device will be out-of-space in a year or so.
Why should I have to constantly shuffle albums from my library to my handheld?
I would be pretty excited if they ditched the 16/32/64 lineup and upgraded me to a 32/64/128. I wouldn't purchase the 128, but I would rather have a 64GB iPhone than my 32GB version at the cost of a 32GB. My phone is nearly always full, I have a handful of apps I have to have, then I rotate out games, music, movies, etc. It would be nice to not have to rotate and keep more things at my fingertips.
Send me an IM when the 512 GB model comes out.... Or one with an SD slot so that I can carry a number of 128 GB SD cards with my music albums.
Or how about a USB 3.0 port so that I can connect a 6 TB RAID array with my videos?
My real point is that for any fixed capacity point, that point will be too small for some people. External expansion is the answer.
And why not magical T-Bolt - it's not getting any traction so far.
The solution to your problem is the Seagate Wireless Plus.
And 16GB is for mouth-breathers who only play Angry Birds all day. See what I did there? It's called a stupid generalization (and a false one at that).
How could anyone possibly argue against getting an increase in space at what will probably be no additional cost?
Now all they need to do is offer a few more colors, and a little more customization on the iOS. It took them forever to allow us to change the wallpaper, how about now allowing us to move icons all over, or add widgets, and I assume next iPhone which might be the 5S, should offer better CPU maybe more ram, and make the base 32GB for 199, considering we never see 32GB user space, make it the default. They should have just allowed a micro sd card slot, I do not see the danger in it, especially since the iOS is locked and you can not download apps from somewhere else unless Jailbroken
I use my iphone as my iPod so music
Not to mention, some apps (nav and games) and files (pdfs) can be quite large in cumulative total
I guess these articles are written for the greater readership. Of course there's been no 128GB device yet, iTunes was released *after* they announced their Christmas lineup. The next refresh won't come for a few more months. How can they top their current lineup other than increase capacity???
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The one downside of insane amounts of storage space is that application developers can sometimes become complacent in writing small, efficient applications. Bloating can creep into apps...
128 gig iPod Touch. Been waiting many years for that. Still haven't bought an iPod Touch because of the storage issue.
Just because they may introduce 128Gb on one or two devices, it does not mean across the board; for instance it may be an iPad thing, and not on the iPod/iPhone, or it may be a new go at their Apple TV "hobby" to perhaps introduce built-in PVR functionality or at the very least finally introduce 3rd party apps and local temporary storage.
If people wanna play their racing games on their 42" LCD TVs using their iPhone/iPod/iPad as a controller, why not? Currently you can airplay one device, but for multiple players, why can't the games run on the Apple TV?
Unless Apple starts to get serious, the encroaching SmartTVs and Microsoft's XBox will take all the air out of the Streaming Media and Movies On Demand market. They need a new edge. One strength is their iOS ecosystem, and so far they have failed to capitalise on it on Apple TV. I'm about to get a new TV from an old analog one; it will be a Samsung SmartTV that can play DivX files from USB and you can plug a hard drive into, so whereas before I was considering an Apple TV for streaming, with this what is the need? Especially as Apple refuse to support anything but MPEG4 (AVC/H.264).
If people wanna play their racing games on their 42" LCD TVs using their iPhone/iPod/iPad as a controller, why not? Currently you can airplay one device, but for multiple players, why can't the games run on the Apple TV?
Unless Apple starts to get serious, the encroaching SmartTVs and Microsoft's XBox will take all the air out of the Streaming Media and Movies On Demand market. They need a new edge. One strength is their iOS ecosystem, and so far they have failed to capitalise on it on Apple TV. I'm about to get a new TV from an old analog one; it will be a Samsung SmartTV that can play DivX files from USB and you can plug a hard drive into, so whereas before I was considering an Apple TV for streaming, with this what is the need? Especially as Apple refuse to support anything but MPEG4 (AVC/H.264).
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Will probably be the iPad if anything - I doubt the phones are ready to support that capacity. Though, I would be pleasantly surprised to see it in the 5S (without the price increasing from the current 64 GB model, of course) since I've been waiting for one.