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Apple's Live Photos Take Up About 2x Space of Normal Images
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That is what Apple want you to believe.
The reason is far more simple: Apple want a lame excuse to push iPhone 6 and 6+ owners to upgrade for what is essentially simply software features. And you are buying their incredibly transparent and crappy excuses.
Same reason Siri isn't available on the iPhone 4. Utter bull. All it needs to do is record voice, compress and send to the Siri server, which does the analytical speech processing.
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If you don't want to use 16GB, get 64
Goood, good, Let the hate flow through you.
If you don't want to use 16GB, get 64
Goood, good, Let the hate flow through you.
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Which is where the 'twice the size' came from
Photo plus live portion = live photo
To the people who complain about others upset over 16GB: We're upset because it's shady tactics and it's unfair. Apple KNOWS 16GB is nothing especially with this new feature, but makes them anyway so people buy the more expensive model. Same with the iMac 1.4 GHz. Who needs that? An iMac should be a powerhouse, not on par with a laptop. They purposefully make junk versions of their stuff so they bump up the price on ones that are actually worth a damn. They REALLY should make 32GB the entry point, it's not like higher end models have more features.
Cheapskates, eh? Why don't you come over here to Europe to check how much we pay for even the smallest capacity iPhones, especially after the latest price increases for the 6s generation? It's not a question of being a cheapskate or not but more a question of buying bloody expensive versus ridiculously expensive.
You hit the nail on the head, mate.
Why are they still building devices with small storage? They've upgraded nearly everything in the phone except space for the past few years
It would be nice if these live photos automatically deleted after X number of days, unless specifically saved/locked by the user. I don't need video for every photo - often it would probably be just my friends saying "hurry up and take the dam picture". But if you give me some days to review the photos, and pick the ones that have good live video to save only those, that would be better.
What you seem to forget is that non-tech savvy people also buy iPhones, in fact that is Apple's biggest market. And they tend to go for cheapest. Cheapest means smallest storage, and these people end up with a bad experience. Surely that cannot be what Apple is after?
Because $. They want to discourage entry level orders.
What they should do is just get rid of the 16GB model altogether and not give you the choice of being a good girl/boy and getting the one with decent storage or being cheap and not getting an iPhone at all. That'll really give ya'll something to complain about.
Because it makes sense for them to milk you as much as they can. If the options are 16 and 64 GB for anyone who knows whats a GB, CPU and RAM is its not much of a choice is it?
You can go back 10, 15 years and you'll hear the same complaints about the amount of RAM their computers shipped with. Or about the wimpy graphic cards (a complaint that has stayed with us for as long as I can remember).
Unfair? Go live in a third-world country and then tell me what unfair is. We're talking about iPhones, not the cure for AIDS or the solution to world hunger. If you can afford a new iPhone, 16GB or otherwise, please stop complaining.
There will be hundreds of thousands of people not knowing that they can do that or that it even existed. Welcome to reality.
4K video and double the space of a 12 MP photo? You'd have no chance with a 16GB phone.
Do I have the option to get a larger size? Yeah, but that's the problem.
With this tactic they're strong-arming or pigeon-holing people into having to buy the mid-tier or high-end models at outrageous storage prices ($/GB)
And I don't buy Phill Schiller's "everything is in the cloud so they don't need more space..." BS or their argument that having a 16GB model somehow magically keeps their costs down - because it doesn't.
All this does is increase their margins. That's what it was designed to do.
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Or how about apple stops ripping people off. It's 2015 - The base model should be 32 GB. Here in Australia you pay over $1000 for a 6S 16 GB. That's just not right. Plenty of people are being saddled with laughably small iPhones as the can't afford a more espensive model.
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