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iPhone 13 Pro's New 1TB Storage Option Already Facing Delivery Times Into October
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Supply chain problems. Certainly not demand.
Every time I see someone question why people want 1TB ... this has been answered here in these forums over the years by many people including myself. Some people shoot a mega ton of video or photos and some people (like myself) have a massive collection of music (in my case, live music recordings in lossless formats) that is not available in any streaming service and we want as much of it as possible available to listen to while traveling or when data/wifi is not available. The 1TB is not for everyone but clearly as we can see there is a lot of demand for it. I am not surprised in the least that the 1TB are already slipping. I got my 1TB order in right at 8am Eastern time so I look forward to loading up a crap ton of my music collection next Friday.
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1 TB and still no native way to back up to an external drive. The Mac Pro (the $5,999 model) starts with 256 GB!
You couldn't back this up to a base Mac Pro.
I know you can fix it with a command line to back up to another drive, but it's such a small little thing they could include by default.
Or you can pay them per month, I know.
You couldn't back this up to a base Mac Pro.
I know you can fix it with a command line to back up to another drive, but it's such a small little thing they could include by default.
Or you can pay them per month, I know.
I don’t understand the need for that much storage? I have 128gb and not even close to filling it up, as everything in is cloud based.
Cause that's you, and I am also that way. But there are also people who prefer to store things locally and have lots of videos.
Got the 256gb graphite pro on TMobile. Estimated ship 9/24-9/27. Site had some issues, but that ended up working in my favor:
Trade-in for my iPhone X was going to be only $134 and I didn't want to upgrade to Magenta Max for the $800 credit because it would have increased our plan price significantly. When I hit "don't trade in this device" or "Trade in this device", it would spin and then come up with a "Oops something went wrong. Try again". Then after about 7 or 8 tries and multiple refreshes, it worked and came up with $400 promotional trade-in credit instead! Our bill is going to actually end up being less than it was before in a couple months when my wife's 11 is paid off.
Trade-in for my iPhone X was going to be only $134 and I didn't want to upgrade to Magenta Max for the $800 credit because it would have increased our plan price significantly. When I hit "don't trade in this device" or "Trade in this device", it would spin and then come up with a "Oops something went wrong. Try again". Then after about 7 or 8 tries and multiple refreshes, it worked and came up with $400 promotional trade-in credit instead! Our bill is going to actually end up being less than it was before in a couple months when my wife's 11 is paid off.
I never though I'd fill up my 64GB iPhone X, but here I am always having to find stuff to delete. I'm doing a lot of video stuff in other apps (Like Insta360, Splice, and Filmic Pro) that have to work locally rather than on iCloud. I've never shot video in ProRes, but now that it's right there on my phone I'll probably use it for some higher-end videos for church and YouTube. And I'm sure I'll be saying "dang it. I wish I had gotten the 512 instead of the 256"! iCloud kicks butt though for keeping all the iCloud compatible stuff from hogging up the storage. 💪
As a future 1TB 13 Pro owner, I wanted to remark on my storage needs.
So in addition to my 8 terabyte iMac + 2TB MacBook Pro and 1TB iPad Pro, I finally have a 1TB iPhone which is the device I'm primarily shooting video on so for me, this is huge. I can finally store my entire music library and shoot 2 weeks of video without having to stress about storage.
so for me, I'm STOKED.
I don't see myself needing more than 1TB for a very long time though.
For a taste of what that's like, here's a link to a 'ride report' which by the way is I think 250 megabytes to load the page due to how many hot-linked images. I capture videos, photos and GPX files for every day of our rides and then publish them - https://advrider.com/f/threads/3-blokes-from-new-hampshire-visit-colorado-and-utah-2020.1469006/
Taking a step way back in time, I used to always buy the largest iPod too. I find a way to fill up disks. Now that the newest cameras can shoot 8K/5.6K, I may end up having to buy a new SSD based NAS soon that's 10GB ethernet.
- I don't live in an area with decent cell phone service. In fact, I'm more likely to not have a cell connection than have it
- I spend a large part of my year off-road riding / hiking and again, no cell phone service
- I do run a YouTube channel and do photographer semi-professionally so when I'm off-road I'm shooting a lot of video (4K via GoPro Hero90x2, DJI Mavic 2, iPhone, Canon 5D Mark IV)
- I keep my music stored locally. I have about 350 GB of music in my iTunes Library and have never been able to store it all locally
- My iCloud Library is 1.1 Terabytes and that's without videos. I only store photos in there and dump videos out to my NAS in the basement which is 100+ terabytes with 60 of that full of video
- My Lightroom library is 8 terabytes
- The iPhone is slowly becoming my primary video tool so I'll go off road for 2 weeks w/o cell phone service and shoot hours of 4K, 60FPS video with it or import stuff from my DJI / GoPro to it to review
- My 512GB iPhone is nearly full but thanks to iCloud Photo Library, that saves my bacon quite often
- I have a few iPhone apps that have local maps (Gaia, BMW Connected, TomTom)
- I store all of my documents on iCloud Drive (2TB storage Tier)
So in addition to my 8 terabyte iMac + 2TB MacBook Pro and 1TB iPad Pro, I finally have a 1TB iPhone which is the device I'm primarily shooting video on so for me, this is huge. I can finally store my entire music library and shoot 2 weeks of video without having to stress about storage.
so for me, I'm STOKED.
I don't see myself needing more than 1TB for a very long time though.
For a taste of what that's like, here's a link to a 'ride report' which by the way is I think 250 megabytes to load the page due to how many hot-linked images. I capture videos, photos and GPX files for every day of our rides and then publish them - https://advrider.com/f/threads/3-blokes-from-new-hampshire-visit-colorado-and-utah-2020.1469006/
Taking a step way back in time, I used to always buy the largest iPod too. I find a way to fill up disks. Now that the newest cameras can shoot 8K/5.6K, I may end up having to buy a new SSD based NAS soon that's 10GB ethernet.
People will bitch and moan about anything. Look at me. I’m whining about other people whining lol
If you question why the 1TB is necessary, then you're not the targeted demographic for it. So tired of seeing posts about people "not understanding" or stating it's not necessary
I wonder what people store on their phone to buy 1TB. In a streaming area, 128gb sounds like enough IMO. My current 12 pro max 128b still have 84gb of free space.
Thank you for taking the time to explain your use case and I suspect there are many more like this. There are lots of people for whom the iPhone is a tool of their trade like you.
”I don't see myself needing more than 1TB for a very long time though.” - famous last words
Why would you do that? What were you thinking?The minute I got signed into the store when it came up with my pre-order the delivery date for the 1TB was already showing October 6th
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I don't know how long you've waited but can't you wait for 3 more weeks to get the storage that you really want instead of going for the 2nd highest?
Thank you for taking the time to explain your use case and I suspect there are many more like this. There are lots of people for whom the iPhone is a tool of their trade like you.
”I don't see myself needing more than 1TB for a very long time though.” - famous last words
I run 256GB SD cards in all of my devices so that does help a bit but while 512/1TB SD cards are available, I follow the logic of swap cards daily versus fill up a huge card and then risk losing it all. I think when I'm on the motorcycle, between devices and cards, I'm carrying close to 5 terabytes of data on me. Kind of insane when you think that was a server room just 20 years ago.
Same here, I got in past 5 minutes past, clicked on complete order and as always had to re-enter card info even though supposedly verified 2 days ago on the pre-preorder process. I am getting the ProMax 1TB graphite. It said 9/24, less than minute after entering card info and completing order it slipped to October 6-11. Yes seems they anticipated this color less popular and being the 1TB less orders than the other memory sizes. So much for the pre-preorder process. Apple is batting 50 percent failure for me getting on opening day in past 5 years. A first world problem I know and I can live with it.