It makes me smile some what that I have a 10 year old 1st gen 256GB iPod mini (owned from new)!
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256GB Storage Rumor Gaining Steam as iPhone 7 Launch Approaches
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There is a relationship. Plus, if 16 GB is okay, why not make it 8 GB?
And these companies never make bad business decisions?
This is only welcome IF the new base line is 32 gb. My god... I know it's Apple but it's also about to be 2017 and we're still asking for this incredibly simple and modest addition.
Apple may surprise a lot people much as they did with the cost of the SE. The 16GB base kept the introductory cost low for a phone with a host of new upgrades. They may do much the same with the upcoming model, particularly so as it is being considered more of an interim upgrade. The allure may be the pricing structure.
This is tempting. I'd be able to have my entire iCloud photo library in full quality on my phone. 
It's a pain to have to show friends blurry pictures because they're not downloaded from iCloud when connectivity is crappy.
It's a pain to have to show friends blurry pictures because they're not downloaded from iCloud when connectivity is crappy.
Why didn't you just buy 64 or 128 Gb ? I just went and bought
That's like saying "Why didn't you build your house from golden bricks and cover it with diamond roof shingles? I just went and bought some". Many people, including myself, have to think twice before spending 700-800 euros for a phone, so the extra 100-200 euros for more storage is not something self-explanatory for most people. Don't think that I'm offended, because I'm not, just keep in mind that the vast majority of people don't spend a grand on a phone in a heartbeat.
Surely using cloud services is far, far more cost effective than paying Apple's inflated prices for flash storage? You can stream all your music, all photos are stored in the cloud...what's the reason for having an iPhone with a capacity this large? Apart from having too much money and little sense.
Each to their own, this is just my way of looking at things. 16GB has been fine for me over the past few years but Apple switching to a 32GB base model would be very welcome, just for that little extra bit of flash storage.
Each to their own, this is just my way of looking at things. 16GB has been fine for me over the past few years but Apple switching to a 32GB base model would be very welcome, just for that little extra bit of flash storage.
I do use icloud for my music and pictures. But even with the optimized option for pictures, it still takes 20GB on my phone. So right now I sit at 37gig used. I could probably tweak that down to 32 gig, but at this point I think I will be okay in the 64gig option. With the use of icloud I do not see me going to the 128gig option unless they really kill the 64gig (which is exactly what this article says).
This will probably be the first mainstream $1000+ cell phone, which will be a ridiculous assumption by Apple that consumers are willing to pay that much for a micro-evolving product.
The only surprise for iPhone 7 would be if pricing started at $499, but I think it will start closer to $799 and skyrocket from there.
The only surprise for iPhone 7 would be if pricing started at $499, but I think it will start closer to $799 and skyrocket from there.
Not the full picture, picking and choosing results to suit what he's saying
NVME is an extremely fast storage build. For sequential Read/Write it's currently the fastest.
it is however, not the fastest at random read/write or 4k read/write.
So what this ends up providing is a mixed result: anything that reads / writes sequentially will benefit from NVME
Anything that does a lot of random read /writes, will get better result out of UFS and other file systems.
Results of Sequential reads/writes
Results of Random read/writes
Either way you choose it, NVME or UFS for your device, you will get great performance. The big bottleneck in most phones these days isn't the disk access speed for most applications, but still believe it or not, memory (and amount), memory bandwith, and more likely, CPU. as tremendously fast the A9 is, its still a low power ARM CPU
The Fusion Drive has 1,000 GB of data available to you at about 800 MBit/sec and for free. iCloud costs me about £10 per Gigabyte to access when I'm on the road and isn't accessible on the Underground at all.
Might be a lot of storage, however I wonder how much space photos taken with the dual camera will take up? I might get a 128GB to allow for that and Live Photos, I currently have a 64GB with 23GB free.
The dual camera, 256GB option, space black option and the force touch home button and I think this is turning out to be a nice upgrade from an iPhone 6 Plus!
The dual camera, 256GB option, space black option and the force touch home button and I think this is turning out to be a nice upgrade from an iPhone 6 Plus!
I see a lot of strange pricing and storage schemes being floated but it's pretty obvious to me that they're gonna just apply the iPad Pro scheme to the iPhone. I predict it's gonna be 32/128/256 at 649/799/949 (for 4.7) [just like the iPad Pro] or 32/128/256 at 649/749/849.
The base Fusion Drive had 1000 GB. But the SSD of that base FD is only 24 GB.
It used to be higher.
Just read your quote. It still only addresses the $100 difference as a hardship. It ignores any other motivation for not wanting to pay $100 for additional storage. Principle: Some may not want to pay because of the perceived greed of Apple. Last year it was rumored the cost difference between 16GB and 64GB was $17, yet Apple charges $100 to the customer. Value: Some may think the $100 up charge doesn't reflect proper value.
i think apple should think of making their cables better so that you can sync the data quicker because it going to take ages too sync 256gb of data to a iPhone more likely take all day it ok haven big storage but you have to have the cables to support so you can sync the data fast
Curious what the thoeretical bandwidth of Lightning is. the NVME storage should be very quick for reading stream of data off storage for backups. We know the iPad Pro supports USB-3 speeds now. So could be a nice update to transfer speeds in the iPhone 7