DAMN. Is it because your music is in a lossless format, or do you just have a ton of music?
I have a ton of music. Over a thousand CD's in my storage closet when that was the main format. Still can't bring myself to sell them.
DAMN. Is it because your music is in a lossless format, or do you just have a ton of music?
OP here. I think I need to clarify the question.
As I stated in my original post, I have a few albums and podcasts and a couple of tv shows etc. for those rare occasions when I have no net connection, but those times are *exceedingly* rare. I'm in the country right now, like literally farms are here country, and pretty much everyone here has DSL w. wifi, and in town I even get some cell data. So I pretty much always just stream music and tv right from pandora/Amazon prime/Netflix/etc. So if this is the case for me in the country, then that means the vaaast majority of people will have at least as much net connectivity as I get. - So why store any more than a few pieces of audio or video on your device?
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I'm very well aware of how much space you CAN fill up by loading your phone with 50,000 songs, or 10,000 high res photos, or several seasons worth of tv episodes, etc. The question is why do you store all that stuff locally on your device instead of just having a few of those items stored locally for the rare occasions when you don't have net access to stream them? Even out in the country where I am, pretty much everyone has DSL with wifi, and in town you even get some cell data. So for the vast majority of the population you're going to have net connectivity that's at least as good as that, and usually much better.
Right, that's what I just described, which is why for those rare occasions I have a few albums and a couple of tv episodes stored locally. But 10 albums, 10 podcasts, and 5 good quality tv episodes altogether don't take up more than 5 GB at max.
I have a ton of music. Over a thousand CD's in my storage closet when that was the main format. Still can't bring myself to sell them.
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I'm very well aware of how much space you CAN fill up by loading your phone with 50,000 songs, or 10,000 high res photos, or several seasons worth of tv episodes, etc. The question is why do you store all that stuff locally on your device instead of just having a few of those items stored locally for the rare occasions when you don't have net access to stream them? Even out in the country where I am, pretty much everyone has DSL with wifi, and in town you even get some cell data. So for the vast majority of the population you're going to have net connectivity that's at least as good as that, and usually much better.
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I've had a 16 GB iPad for 3 years and a 16 GB iPhone for a year, and I've almost never had a problem of too little available space. I have many many apps installed, including a couple of big games, I keep about 10 music albums and a few podcasts stored for those rare occasion when I don't have cell or wifi net access available, each week I take about 30 pictures and a couple of short videos, I'm running iOS 8 which supposedly eats up over 1 GB more than 7, I only sync with my computer to offload the pics and videos every couple of months, and even with all of that I still have like 4 GB of space free. What are other people storing that eats up so much more space that it requires 32 or 64 GB of space?
I have a 32GB iPhone 4 still for another few days and at first I thought 16GB would be enough (and that I could save 100) since I thought I don't have a lot of stuff on my phone anymore, because since I wiped it with the release of iOS7 and my phone becoming unbearably slow with that (7.1 made it acceptable) I hardly took any photos or videos which used to take up heaps of space. Only had like 1/4 of my music library on there as well.
Yet when I checked out my storage usage I had over 20GB used and only few things that I was accepting to delete.
So I went with a 64GB iPhone and I doubt I'll regret it, seeing as I'm hoping that with a faster phone I can finally take pictures and videos again, maybe have a few shows on there that I watch regularly (although Netflix just came to Austria, but I don't wanna waste my 3GB plan on this) and have more music on there.
Each to their own. I have a friend who has a 16gb iPhone and most of the time she's busy with deleting photos to take a quick snapshot of something. ^^
Spotify, Netflix, Dropbox... obviously these are services most people haven't been made aware of in this thread...
I don't think having the storage full makes your phone slower. Unless you really had absolutely no space. Like < 100 MB or something.
My 32GB were never fully used. I meant that going from iOS 6 to iOS 7 made my iPhone 4 painfully slow. After 7.1 was released it was significantly more useable again.
Apple losless is why I need the space. At home, it doesn't matter, and why I have a 16gb Ipad. Out of the house I want a decent library of music that is my personal collection and I want it in the best audio quality.
I do not like hosted storage of any kind. Apple or anybody else, doesn't need to have access to my files including financial, photos, or otherwise.
A decent movie is 2GB.
A TV show about 600MB.
And obviously you haven't been reading the replies.
Here's the problem with ALL of those services: you need a reliable and fast network connection to use them. On the subway? You're boned. On an aircraft? Boned. A rural location? Boned. A highly congested city? Boned.
There are so many situations where data connectivity is spotty or unavailable that relying on cloud services simply isn't an option, never mind the obvious danger of entrusting files to a third party who may or may not be trustworthy enough to keep those files safe.
Ultimately the best, most reliable and safest way to access your files is to have them physically on your device. THAT is why I always buy the largest capacity iPhone/iPod/MacBook/MacPro that I can afford. Relying on cloud services, whether you choose to admit it or not, is just asking for trouble.
I understand that videos take up space. But you haven't answered my question, which is why do you need several seasons worth of tv shows stored on your phone at all times?
It's music... It's not your social security number!