According to turbineseaplane it provides an enormous benefit for many users.
It's not often in life you can get an enormous benefit for only $100. My girlfriend is much more expensive.
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Apple's Base 128GB iPhone Storage Tier Needs to Go
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According to turbineseaplane it provides an enormous benefit for many users.
It's not often in life you can get an enormous benefit for only $100. My girlfriend is much more expensive.
so what the iPhone is supposed to have the same base storage as a Mac? most iPhone stuff is in the cloud anyways. I haven't thought about my storage in years. the 256 base on the Mac is far more concerning.
Yes, I know and I don't have any problems with it. I don't need Apple to take care of my needs or even know about them. They're just a potential solution provider.
Apple provides products and services at a certain price point. My job as a potential customer is either to pay what they charge or not. If they provide enough value for me, I'll pay. If they don't I don't pay.
it's an extremely simple system which I prefer over any other system I have heard about.
We want Apple to turn down the juice a little bit on how much they charge for storage. But you're right that's not Apple's job, that's why their market share is decreasing.
So the rational thing to do for you, would be to stop being loyal and buy something else?
If Apple isn't providing enough value for the prices they charge, why are you still a customer?
I don't mind paying more for products which provides me more value. I don't mind paying less either. But one thing I don't like it's when customers try to have say in how companies design and price their products. It's not our job to interfere in that process.
Our job is to buy or not to buy. That's the question.
They're not ripping anyone off. People buy their products and services, repeatedly, of their own free will.
If people think the Apple ecosystem is too expensive, just change to the Google ecosystem which would be overall much cheaper and probably better if you're dissatisfied with Apple.
Yeah we do the same. So photos/videos only take up a few gigs for me b/c it's constantly backing up to iCloud (and Google Photos for me). And between the 5 of us, we're using almost all of our 2 TB of iCloud storage, most of which is taken up by everybody's photos/videos. I do download the occasional movie/tv show when traveling. And do have about 8-10gb of playlists I like to keep local. But still, I'm barely over 60gb on the regular.
I got 15PM with 512Gb storage thinking it will be just enough. After almost 1,5 years of having the phone I used up 64GB of storage, out of which 12GB is photos and videos. And I have a kid! As much as I hate to say it 128GB is still fine, but what is not fine at all is charging additional 128 or 256 insane amount of money.
You seem to get angry when companies make a lot of money from their customers.
Most regular users need a lot of storage only for their pictures and videos. Fortunately, Apple offers several solutions to this problem:
Solution 1* (no extra cost, low value): iPhone with little local storage and no iCloud subscription.
Solution 2 (high cost, medium value): iPhone with a lot of local storage and no iCloud subscription
Solution 3 (medium extra cost, medium to high value): iPhone with little local storage and medium cost iCloud subscription
Solution 4 (high cost, medium to high value): iPhone with a lot of local storage and expensive iCloud subscription
Although it isn't a linear correlation between value and cost, we can see that by spending money, we get more value. This is a good thing.
* Not really a solution, unless you value frustration and Apple gives you it for free!
You’re right. Apple would rather sell less than reduce the price. They’ll make up the difference in services.
We always said that Apple would increase specifications when it was needed for most regular users. Apple Intelligence requires more RAM, Apple increased it.
What we argued against was that more RAM was needed before Apple Intelligence was released for a lot of users and we didn't want them to pay $200 more for the base model if it was increased by Apple.
If you don't intend to use Apple Intelligence or other memory hungry applications, 8Gb is still good enough for a lot of Mac users.
So you want unlimited storage?
Charging more for more space seems quite normal to me. So many things in life increases in value when you increase the size.
It's marked as not in use and will be deleted if the space is needed.
This has the advantage that if the user changes their mind, Apple Intelligence does not need to be downloaded again.
No we're not. The reason we're staying quiet is because you people have stopped complaining about the standard amount of RAM. When you do, we will be there.
Because the argument is still valid.
As long as a lot of regular users don't need a certain amount of RAM, it's better for them that Apple offer a low configuration than a higher configuration with a higher price.
We never argued against Apple increasing memory without Apple increasing prices, but we knew that Apple wouldn't to that unless they're well compelled to do so.
LLMs memory usage compelled Apple.
That's a good thing. I want billions of people to be hooked on Apple products and services.
It benefits me immensely since a hugely profitable product or service gives Apple an incentive to continue and sometimes even develop it further and I like most Apple products and services.
I know how huge it is since I have been reading every quarterly report for 15 years. It's hugely profitable. It started around 60% and now it's over 75%.
But a large part of that profit isn't paid by Apple's customers, but by Google.
It's good that Apple offer a solution for the average customer to manage their photo library. That provides value for the customer and the customer should pay for that value.
Children doesn't get angry about corporate greed since they most often use their parents money.
Being angry at companies is an activity almost entirely being done by adults.
I agree completely and the solution is to refrain from buying. You're not getting a fair value for the price Apple charge, you behave rationally and do nothing*.
*Except complaining, but that's free and you probably get a lot of value out of it
Apple wouldn't be happy. It's kind of fruitless to come up with suggestions where the producer of the products and services would be worse off.
While it's technically true that there is a 128gb s25 (the + starts at 256), right now Samsung is offering a $10 upgrade to go to 256, and often offers free storage upgrades. So it's not apples to apples with what Apple is doing.
That's not how the market should work. Companies should charge what they can irregardless of their cost.
We as potential customers should care much for the profit of the companies, and only make a judgement if the product provides enough value for the price.
It's the rational thing to do. If something isn't providing enough value for the price being charged, not buying seems like the right action.
Complaint doesn't really get you anywhere does it?