Curious to hear anyone's opinions on whether the 128GB will end up being a loss when it comes to reselling or if it will fetch the same $200 premium in a year. My gut is telling me it'll probably sell on average for $30 more than the 64GB model based on past iPhones. Though it'd be very nice to have the extra space I could get by with 64GB...
I don't look at my smartphones as investments. From a purely resale standpoint, any technology purchase is a bad investment because you'll always lose money on the resale. Technology doesn't appreciate, unless something you have suddenly becomes a rare, notable, collectible vintage item.
That said, my iTunes music and video library edges out at just over 70GB, and I take lots of photos and videos. So to me, i "invest" in a 128GB iPad and have "invested" in a 128GB iPhone 6 Plus, because I feel that value of having that extra space and not having to prune my library all the time, is worth the extra money to me. So is potentially saving on data overages because I won't have to stream on cellular as much.
Then, when it's time to upgrade, I see whatever money I get off the resale of my old device as a nice rebate off the money I spend on the new thing.
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*And while I'm on the subject, putting 16gb in the base model 6 and especially 6 plus is kind of a dick move on Apple's part. Pretty paltry, especially considering the plus will serve as a combination phone and tablet for many of its users AND costs an extra $100 anyway. They're probably smart enough to realize that if they did 32/64/128 on storage hardly anyone would buy the upgraded models.
I've been considering this for a while now, and I'm not so sure it's as dicky a move as it might seem on the face of it. From a purely rational standpoint, sure, it's totally underhanded. But unfortunately, not a lot of people are rational.
At least two of my friends are considering the 16GB model because "[they] never put anything on [their] phones anyway." Even though if it had been 32GB, that would've have hurt them much. And I know at least one of them might've actually bellyached if the 16GB weren't available, that Apple was making people pay for a 32GB model when they could've released a cheaper 16GB model.
It also seems like he lowest storage point sells the most, every time. So that might've been a signal to Apple that there's a lot of people out there who are fine with 16GB.
Meanwhile, spending $100 more gets you a 4x storage upgrade. So, there is a careful psychology in this choice.
There are really two kinds of iPhone users: those who like to stream everything off the cloud, and those who really prefer to stick everything they can on their on-board storage. 32GB is sort of an awkward midpoint between the two extremes that maybe wouldn't have been picked as much.