I think one of the things that people who are asking for more storage space need to ask of themselves is - do you really need to carry every photo, song, video, app, that you've collected?
I was guilty of this, thinking I needed the 16gb of work and home photos I had - going back to 2007. When I went back to look at what exactly I had kept, 80% of the shots I hadn't looked at in years. I fretted over dumping old work photos, because of the off-chance I would need them for some presentation, but I haven't looked back since then.
I've already gotten good at dumping apps I'm not using, because there just isn't a reason to keep them. It's not like the old days when you load a program onto your computer. You can and should be dumping apps, photos, songs, videos, books, etc, if you're not using them. You're not going to lose them, like the old days. That's part of what iCloud is supposed to be doing for us - keeping track of what we've purchased, shot, etc. No sense having it reside on the phone or tablet, if you're not actively using it.
I think the real issue is that people are lazy. I've looked at my stepson's Touch and even though he has 32gb of space (so space isn't an issue), he's got games and apps on it that he hasn't and won't look at ever again. When I ask him why he's not dumping old crap, he says "I don't care if they're on there". Go back and look at all the apps you've bought. Chances are pretty good that you'll question why you're keeping some. And same goes for music, videos, books, etc. Do you really need to keep a book or comic stored on the iPad or iPhone after you've read it once, twice, three times? For god's sake, dump it once you're done with it.
I'm sure there are people who could fill 16gb or more on a daily basis, like photographers, but even then, they should be archiving what they shoot and not expecting a portable tablet to be their sole storage solution.
I was guilty of this, thinking I needed the 16gb of work and home photos I had - going back to 2007. When I went back to look at what exactly I had kept, 80% of the shots I hadn't looked at in years. I fretted over dumping old work photos, because of the off-chance I would need them for some presentation, but I haven't looked back since then.
I've already gotten good at dumping apps I'm not using, because there just isn't a reason to keep them. It's not like the old days when you load a program onto your computer. You can and should be dumping apps, photos, songs, videos, books, etc, if you're not using them. You're not going to lose them, like the old days. That's part of what iCloud is supposed to be doing for us - keeping track of what we've purchased, shot, etc. No sense having it reside on the phone or tablet, if you're not actively using it.
I think the real issue is that people are lazy. I've looked at my stepson's Touch and even though he has 32gb of space (so space isn't an issue), he's got games and apps on it that he hasn't and won't look at ever again. When I ask him why he's not dumping old crap, he says "I don't care if they're on there". Go back and look at all the apps you've bought. Chances are pretty good that you'll question why you're keeping some. And same goes for music, videos, books, etc. Do you really need to keep a book or comic stored on the iPad or iPhone after you've read it once, twice, three times? For god's sake, dump it once you're done with it.
I'm sure there are people who could fill 16gb or more on a daily basis, like photographers, but even then, they should be archiving what they shoot and not expecting a portable tablet to be their sole storage solution.
