Wrong! I need more than 64GB to fill up my iPhone with all my apps including games, photos, musics, videos, etc.
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Do you think the iPhone 5s will be 32/64/128 GB?
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Wrong! I need more than 64GB to fill up my iPhone with all my apps including games, photos, musics, videos, etc.
I think Apple may struggle to differentiate the 5S from the 5 so they may go 32/64/128 and leave the 5 only available in 16. That leaves the 4S at a .99 cent entry level phone.
I pretty much need 32gig to hold all my music and just a few apps. The phone is too damn small to do any serious gaming or anything else (watching movies on the thing is just too painful), so unless I'm just being a pack-rat and hording apps and videos, 32gig is plenty.
I pretty much need 32gig to hold all my music and just a few apps. The phone is too damn small to do any serious gaming or anything else (watching movies on the thing is just too painful), so unless I'm just being a pack-rat and hording apps and videos, 32gig is plenty.
Its possible, I have always used 16GB iPhones and up until recently that is just not enough space for me. My next iPhone I will probably go with a bigger storage capacity.
"Security" - will be easier to jailbreak and offload apps from an SD card.
"Speed" - cheap SD cards have bad read/write speed and it could cripple iOS apps performance.
"Protection" - Rarely, SD cards can get caught/trapped in devices (like my old android).
"Profit" - Apple makes a nice amount from storage space options and won't want to lose out.
"Space" - Not having an SD card slot saves some space which helps internals such as battery have more space.
I personally dont mind SD cards but I can clearly see why Apple won't use them.
I voted on yes, but it was pretty hard not to click "bacon" as it was on the menu...
I think this is part of why they released the iPad 4 as 128GB. To get it out there and see how it sells. Then if it make sense, drop the 16 like the did with the 8.
But then again, what do I know?
BACON!
I think this is part of why they released the iPad 4 as 128GB. To get it out there and see how it sells. Then if it make sense, drop the 16 like the did with the 8.
But then again, what do I know?
BACON!
You must some of the few with unlimited or the 20 GB plans. Not everyone has one.
16 gb is just fine for me. I also had a 16 gb sd card in my Blackberry Storm and never expanded it in 2 years. That's what the 80 gb iPod is for . By the time I fill that up I'm sure the cloud will be everywhere or replaced by something else.
. By the time I fill that up I'm sure the cloud will be everywhere or replaced by something else.
Hopefully 32, is the lowest one because it will take up about 6 gb from 16 gb just all this system configurations including new iOS 7 and 10gb is nothing.
32 gb has always been an option for those that wanted it. I don't see apple cutting profit margins.
Preach on. You start out with maybe 14 with the OS installed. If you use PhotoStream, you've got 1,000 photos on your phone taking up a couple more gigabytes. I haven't even put any apps, music, video or books on the thing yet.
There is never, ever any such thing as "enough" storage. That's why the MacBook Air models got storage bumps, why a 128GB iPad was created, why the iPod classic still exists, and why my desk has three external hard drives totaling about 5GB.
Yes, there are options for more storage than 16GB. But at some point Apple needs to realize that 32GB needs to be the base model with all of these things its throwing out there requiring more and more storage. I would really be fine with a 16/64/128 lineup for people like my parents who somehow get by on 16GB. But starting at 32 would be a good way to split from this new low-budget iPhone that will come out.
Statements like this remind me of the following "tale".
At a computer trade show in 1981, Bill Gates supposedly uttered this statement, in defense of the just-introduced IBM PC's 640KB usable RAM limit, "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
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Whilst I don't expect a storage capacity bump with the 5S, it's very shortsighted to say 64GB is all anyone needs.
I use my iPhone as a convergence device for phone & messaging, photos, videos, internet & music.
I've barely scratched the surface on recording home videos and storing Hollywood movies to watch on the road, but I'm still near the 64GB limit.
The iPhone is more powerful than your main computer was 5-10 years ago. If I truly wanted to fully embrace all of its capabilities, I could easily store 500GB or more and that's just by today's standards. Who knows what the next few years will bring?
Personally, for speed of processing for example, I'd like to be able to perform services like voice dictation and real time language translation locally on the device, without having to access the cloud. Features like this would demand storage.
4K or 3D video recording, the list could go on & on.
I agree. 16/32/64 is more profitable for apple. If apple offer 128, it will be extremely expensive. I don't think there is a market out there for 128 iPhone.
A 128GB iPhone is expensive because Apple charges many times the total manufacturing BOM for those high-capacity NAND chips. The company can sell the upgrades at $50 instead of $100 and still come out far ahead in its gross profit margins.
Not like it would mean anything. Apple fans will gobble up 128GB iPhones like there is no tomorrow, even if they have to pay $1000 apiece for them.
Also...
Not like it would mean anything. Apple fans will gobble up 128GB iPhones like there is no tomorrow, even if they have to pay $1000 apiece for them.
Also...
The rMBPs broke the tradition of storage stepping up in multiples of two. Could we see 32/64/96?
I have a 4s and am very happy with it and only use it for calls, music and the odd picture and video here and there and the 5 adds nothing I want and I highly doubt the 5s will add anything new either. In order for me to ever get a new phone - Apple simply must bump the space options or improve battery life. I don't care about processor, screen size or anything else.
If they are really going to have a 12mp camera with slow mo video (which also uses a lot of room) I can see a jump to 32gb standard.
I also can see the iPad 5 jumping to 32 standard.
The plastic phone will likely have 16gb (Because the current 99$ 4S is only available in 16gb). The $99 5 will have 16gb (Because the current $99 is 16gb) so I think to get people to pay another hundred bucks the easiest way (especially since this is the 's' model) is to up the storage.
For $100 you get a faster, better phone with more storage for your huge photos.
Also bare in mind the 4S was the first time we saw a 64gb iPhone size added.
Maybe 128gb with the 5S?
I also can see the iPad 5 jumping to 32 standard.
The plastic phone will likely have 16gb (Because the current 99$ 4S is only available in 16gb). The $99 5 will have 16gb (Because the current $99 is 16gb) so I think to get people to pay another hundred bucks the easiest way (especially since this is the 's' model) is to up the storage.
For $100 you get a faster, better phone with more storage for your huge photos.
Also bare in mind the 4S was the first time we saw a 64gb iPhone size added.
Maybe 128gb with the 5S?