Stop taking so many effing selfies. There's about a gigabyte of storage back on the average female's (or the extremely odd male's) iPhone.
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Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Large iOS 8 Storage Space
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After getting 75 cents and an iTunes gift card and the lawyers get their millions, he will have learned (and probably knows anyway) that there is a reason why
computers, phones. tablets etc. are being offered in various storage configurations.
This is a dishonest shakedown attempt based on the fact that Apple has deep pockets. As others mentioned all manufacturers should/could then be sued.
Free iOS and OS X updates , increasing security updates etc. make it very clear that each iOS upgrade will require larger and larger storage.
Do we really need have everything spelled out?
If you have a lot of music, photos and videos on you device 16GB won't do!
If Ios does like modern MacOs it displays the number of GiB as GB which is actually re******.
1 GB ≈ 0.931323 GiB
64 GB * 0.931323 ≈ 59,6 GiB
So a 64 GB drive has about 59,6 GiB. Then if you have an OS that takes up some things too.
The problem is that these computer companies display GiB as GB which is just done fu****. Older versions of MacOs and most other Unix like systems have the correct way of displaying it.
You want to use a 16GB iPhone as an external HD? I suggest you buy a $20 thumb drive instead.
Lol, waste of money. The lawyers will get plenty from this I'm sure. They don't seem to mind wasting their time on things like this...
I think it's related to the icloud / photo stream, I ran into this:
If you're in the middle of taking a couple of family photos, a popup message appears on middle of the screen to the effect: "your (free) icloud space is insufficient to backup your iphone, click here to upgrade for $0.99 / month"
i.e. you have to stop everything, carefully click "no", delete some photos, then you can go back to taking new pictures. The icloud photo stream getting full shouldn't stop you from taking pictures...
Deleting photos removes them from the photo stream, so if you haven't saved them separetely on your Mac, they are gone forever.
This is pretty sucky.
I find it amusing that people after 6+ pages are still justifying an entire industry of incorrectly labeling their product. They entire electronics industry should be up to scrutiny for this - not just Apple.
I have no problem with an OS taking up half of my storage as long as when I look on the box, I know that I have X amount of space left. I think that's a very reasonable expectation. Would I file a lawsuit over it - no - but that doesn't mean the idea that the industry should label their products accurately is silly.
I have no problem with an OS taking up half of my storage as long as when I look on the box, I know that I have X amount of space left. I think that's a very reasonable expectation. Would I file a lawsuit over it - no - but that doesn't mean the idea that the industry should label their products accurately is silly.
Taking up a lot of space with the user having no idea of how much, is absurd?
What is absurd is your "Apple can do no wrong" faith.
What does this have to do with iOS 8 or the storage space on the phone itself? This is iCloud, not local phone storage.
How can the user have no idea? They think the OS doesn't take up any space, due to magic? A brand new MS Surface 64GB model only has 37GB of usable space. A new iPhone 6+ 64gb has 55.6GB of free space. Why aren't they suing MS instead?
Well jokes on me, since my Galaxy S has a paltry 350MB of storage.
But I'm not the average Joe so my phone syncs so much I call it Titanic. It's syncing right now, it's is syncing! It wouldn't matter to me if it had only 50MB of storage, since I carry it around so the Missus can keep tabs on me.I gotta agree about 16GB being a joke on an iPad. Sure lots of android tablets have only 16GB of storage (heck some even have only 8GB) but they have microSD cards slots to bump that to respectable level. Considering the price of an iPad, they should come with at least 64GB -- for the masses -- with the option up to 256GB or 512GB for the 1%.
Not gonna happen because
doesn't give us what we want, they TELL US what we want.I'm guessing because they don't own a surface but instead an apple device? Just a hunch
Uhhh last time I checked Apple was a public corporation. Their only reason for existing is to make money for themselves and the shareholders. Companies don't exist to make you feel good about yourself they exist to make money. If they have happy customers that leads to more money but it really doesn't matter (look at comcast).
On another note I always wondered why these phones don't come with say 8-16GB of space separate from the built in storage that is only for the OS and built in apps. Then the 32 or 64GB that they advertise can be advertised as usable storage. It is probably a cost thing.
This lawsuit will go nowhere for many reasons. Every OEM would be guilty of this as every new OS is bigger than the last. OSX, Windows, Linux, and all mobile OS's follow this trait. The precedent a guilty verdict would set is horrific.
If you buy the lowest capacity device you should know you'll run out of space at some point. That's why they sell two larger sizes...
Win8 didn't tell me how much more space it would use when I upgraded my desktop. Nor did my Macbook when I installed Yosemite. Why should iOS have to do this? It's not like most users would click no to the upgrade. They'd click yes then argue they didn't understand what a MB is.
The only OS I'm aware of that does this is CentOS (yum prints storage used on new components).
If you buy the lowest capacity device you should know you'll run out of space at some point. That's why they sell two larger sizes...
Win8 didn't tell me how much more space it would use when I upgraded my desktop. Nor did my Macbook when I installed Yosemite. Why should iOS have to do this? It's not like most users would click no to the upgrade. They'd click yes then argue they didn't understand what a MB is.
The only OS I'm aware of that does this is CentOS (yum prints storage used on new components).
I don't get it? What's the issue? Just pay for the storage you want. I have 16gb. That's fine for me. I have a time capsule, Mac mini and an ipad, I don't need a lot of storage or stuff on my iphone.. I'm good.
That's what they said when the original Macs only had up to 2 400k disk drives. That's what they said when the Palm V only had 2 MB. And that's what they'll still be saying when the Apple Watch Deluxe comes with only 2 TB.
Tech progress and Moore's law will give you more than your bigger number eventually... but your number will always grow even bigger.
Some people are born to be permanently unhappy.
Well I am of the opinion that really Apple should be selling USER space especially at their premium per GB. Most users have no idea about an OS or anything like that. They assume I have 16 gb to put stuff or 64 or 128 etc. Apple should put 20GB in the device and leave 16 for user storage and state its a 16gb device. That would be the right thing to do. However I suspect legally there is not much can be done. It is a 16gb device. The fact that they dont disclose that their iOS takes 25% of it is fine print stuff unfortunately.