No, its not the same. Spotify is 2014, not 1996.
4.7-Inch iPhone 6 Logic Board Shown With 16 GB Flash Storage
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No, its not the same. Spotify is 2014, not 1996.
MacrumoursUser
macrumors 6502
**** you apple if this is true. 1 gb ram and 16 gb storage. Really? I'm sick of my iPad reloading sites when I have two dam tabs. What kind of experience is that?
taptic
macrumors 65816
Gosh man, you're really a brick wall aren't you...
1. With a radio service you have to have internet connection. Although often you do, you don't at all times, so you don't have music with you at all times.
2. You can't go pick the exact song you'd like to hear when you'd like to hear it.
3. You never can be sure you will like what plays next or that you will hear what you know you like anytime soon.
Having music with you is better. Listening to online radio is a DIFFERENT way of listening to music. Now this isn't to say I don't use or enjoy online radio, its just that it is not the same as the music with me at all times.
It is not radio. I hear exactly what I want and also load it down offline when I want. That is Spotify, not 1996. And I always have LTE signal...
You don't need to tell me, but with my 16 gig phone, that's all I have. If Apple is going for the 16/64/128 scheme (and the iPhone 6 is decent enough on all other counts, mainly camera and display), you can bet your shakey tushy that I'm getting the 64 gig model.
If, OTOH, they still only offer 16/32/64, I'll either get the Galaxy Note 4 or stick with the base model and Spotify.
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Well, with Spotify (Premium, ten bucks a month) you can. You can even download your favorites as offline playlists.
Internet radio obviously is as you describe.
So you're going to base your purchase decision on whether or not the 2014 iPhone lineup includes models in which you aren't even interested. I see...
Not for those of us who don't feel the need to carry our entire library of music, 25 movies and 45 games on our PHONE. I keep all my music on my iPod and couldn't care less about watching movies on a PHONE. 16GB is plenty for the casual user and there are more of us then there are of people like you
So you're going to base your purchase decision on whether or not the 2014 iPhone lineup includes models in which you aren't even interested. I see...
Why are you confused? I refuse to pay 100 euros to go from 16 to 32 GB, and I'm not happy with 16 GB and no expandable storage. OTOH, I think that an extra 100 euros is very much worth it for going from 16 to 64 geebees.
Of course, if the lineup is 16/32/64 with the price hike being 0/50/100 euros, I won't have any problems and I'll happily take the 64 GB model again.
So your decision has nothing really to do with storage capacity and everything to do with price. Is saving 50 Euros really worth going to a Note?
D.T.
macrumors G4
Absolutely. Unless Apple manages to impress me properly with the iPhone 6, I'm so getting the Note 4. I'll keep my iPhone 5 as my personal device and get the Note 4 for business use. Unless Sammy pulls a double whammy and releases a dual-SIM Note 4, in which case I'd just "archive" my iPhone or give it to my kids to play with.
Anyway, I've just bought an iPad Air for my mom and set up a shared photostream so that she can see and print all the pics of her grand kids that she could ever ask for, so I'd really, really hate to not have an iPhone at hand, but I guess I could sync the photos on my iMac/Macbook... Oh, the first world problems...
AppleScruff1
macrumors G4
So maybe they should cut the base model to 8 GB and keep the price at $199. They would make even more money that way!
D.T.
macrumors G4
Damn you!
(Out of curiosity, where are you located?)
Denmark. A small country, but very well covered with LTE, and for me, worst case is 7-18 Mbps 3G when no LTE. But on my way to work, in the city and where my friends live, I have LTE. 10 GB data, 12 hours talk, unlimited SMS/MMS for like 20 dollars a month. You have to take into account that everything is more expensive in Denmark compared to the US, but maybe the carrier prices are more even?
SurfaceAndIPad
macrumors newbie
Given my situation that allows me to stream indiscriminately (Work issued and unlimited Data iPhone) I don't even come close to using up my 16 gigs but I think it's a mistake to have a modern flagship phone have anything less than 32 gigs. High end iOS games are pushing a gig each these days.
D.T.
macrumors G4
That cell plan is a good bit cheaper, we pay ~8X times that for two unlimited plans with 6Gb shared data
The main issue here is the huge geography, so while the coverage continues to improve, there are some janky areas, combined with the cost of data, continuous streaming would be a mix of high costs + inconsistent bandwidth/availability.
MH01
Suspended
It's not RAM, and be prepared for a 16gb iPhone 6 as the base model
It’s not ROM ... otherwise, how could I _write_ photos or music to the device.
It’s storage. Read and write flash storage.
It is definitely not about ROM either.. Think about what you wrote: read ONLY
Actually it IS ROM. There are MANY types of ROM- some rewritable, some not. PROM for instance, is Programmable ROM, and can only be written to once. Flash memory is a form of EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable ROM), whereas CD-ROM is compact disc ROM (but is still rewritable depending on the substrate).
This would make sense. If 64 was 100 dollars I could do it. Zero chance I play 100 for 16 more GBs though.
jozeppy26
macrumors 6502a
I'm sorry but 16GB has almost nothing to do with music. I mean I have 16 now and I sync a small playlist that takes up barely any room. Space is mostly occupied by apps, pictures, and recorded videos (bc god only knows where they all are and how many duplicates exist between my camera roll, photo stream, shared photo streams). So I use dropbox camera upload and manually delete photos from my camera roll periodically because I cannot for the life of me figure out Apple's photo management.
ghettochris
macrumors 6502a
you can use it like an iphone just fine with 16 GB, even 8 GB, you can't just go crazy on huge apps, giant music libraries, or videos. you can browse the web, stream music and use maps just fine with almost no storage use.
D.T.
macrumors G4
Yep, plus Facebook, Twitter, browse photo streams/order photos, remote an AppleTV, stream podcasts, reminders, calendar, reminders, FaceTime A/V, run tons of non-storage intensive apps like Starbucks, Instagram, Amazon, PayPal, Ebay, etc.
A 16GB iOS device isn’t even in the same ballpark as a “feature phone”.
StyxMaker
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Ignorant? Myself, and everyone I know with an iPhone have chosen to stay with the 16 GB phones. We are not 'ignorant' we know what the memory sizes are and just don't need more memory.