Can you imagine showing up to photograph a wedding and you pull out your iphone to transfer all of your RAW shots from your DSLR onto your iphone with the camera connection kit? You could even pick out a few of them and send them to the bride and groom there and then. Wonderful for their Great-Uncle Tommy who now lives in Australia and is flying back tomorrow.
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Can you imagine showing up to photograph a wedding and you pull out your iphone to transfer all of your RAW shots from your DSLR onto your iphone with the camera connection kit? You could even pick out a few of them and send them to the bride and groom there and then. Wonderful for their Great-Uncle Tommy who now lives in Australia and is flying back tomorrow.
You can still do that with iCloud Photos. It works seamlessly as long as you have an internet connection.
Not everywhere has a reliable internet connection. Not everyone has unlimited or cheap data. If travelling for a period, importing all photos directly to an iphone (so as ot have a 2nd copy) would be much simpler than hauling a laptop + dongles along.
It's rather obtuse to say nobody would improve their workflows by having 512GB of storage on their phone, and that the cloud is better.
A 512GB Max is obscenely expensive. For a couple bucks a month you can get a ton of cloud storage. It’s a better option imo, but of course opinions will vary. It will depend on your data plan and speeds.
Perhaps. But for someone whose laptop is getting on a bit, buying one new device over two is a steal.
It's not for everyone. Many people who don't need it will buy the 512GB, and more fool them. But there are people out there who will be using it to the max and appreciating that it is offered.
None of these I have, nor will I buy.
None of these work when I have zero cell service, and no WiFi. (I spend a week or more at a time in the woods... Just spend 2.5 weeks with zero service, did not miss it)
Cloud is useless without internet access.
I bought the 512gb because the 256gb I have almost filled up.
I use MY devices how I WANT, If I want to fill it up with movies/pictures/apps so I don't have to download on demand (and wait) then I will.
If *you* want to store everything in the cloud and stream/download on demand to your 64/32/16gb devices... go for it. I don't care.
It's funny how people will tell others how to buy and spend their money/time... It's my money, my time.
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Continuing using the Wedding as an example... my niece's wedding... had zero internet access. It was on an island that had zero cell coverage.
So go ahead and rely on that "cloud" in every situation...
Because you quoted what I wrote and underlined the part about the Adobe Creative Cloud, I think you misunderstood what I was saying. My point about the Adobe Cloud had nothing to do with arguing about cloud vs local storage. I appreciate more local storage in the XS Max. In discussing the price and storage capacity, I was comparing this new phone being used in ways that other devices in the same price range and same storage capacity are already used and cited the Adobe software as an example.
To the other arguments about not needing the new capabilities: You're right - there are alternate ways that don't absolutely require 512GB on a phone. We have been getting by without that for years. But new capabilities bring new options and potential for different workflows. No downside because you are not forced to get the 512GB model if you don't need or want it.
Bottom line is Apple knows the majority of people don’t need 512gb.
Offering it is setting themselves apart and crowning themselves an ultra premium company as always.
This offering of 512gb at $1449 USD is also testing whether or not the market will bear what they have in store for next year. Next year they can keep the same iPhone prices, keep the same storage capacities with lower supplier costs and make more profit per phone than this year. Theoretically.
Offering it is setting themselves apart and crowning themselves an ultra premium company as always.
This offering of 512gb at $1449 USD is also testing whether or not the market will bear what they have in store for next year. Next year they can keep the same iPhone prices, keep the same storage capacities with lower supplier costs and make more profit per phone than this year. Theoretically.
This is what I mean, I don’t think people understand how iCloud Photos works. If you have no coverage you can still take all the photos you want. The phone will make space. Your older photos will be offloaded but they’re already in iCloud, so it doesn’t matter. It’s all invisible to you, unless you for some reason try to access one of your very old photos that hasn’t been opened in a long time, which the OS has offloaded to make space. In that case you’ll get a smaller preview version of the photo when you try to enlarge it instead of the full thing. No big deal. Then whenever you get to WiFi or cellular signal, the whole thing is uploading and saving changes etc. It’s simple and totally invisible to you.
And if you want to take 300 GB of RAW photos in the Amazon, iCloud photos offloading older images won’t help a jot. We understand how it works, you’re just blindly ignoring that it’s not for everyone.
I don’t think you understand how few people need to take 300GB of RAW photos on their iPhone without internet connectivity. It’s jusr not an issue for 99.999% of users.
Why did you buy 512GB in your laptop then, only to use 20% of it?
Some people do data intensive stuff.
Bacause I boot camp and if went with 256 I would be approaching 50% usage out of the gate.