There sure is, just stick with the phone you have.
If it's >4 years old, that would be the smart choice.
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iPhone 15 Pro Likely to Feature Up to 8GB RAM, 1TB Storage
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There sure is, just stick with the phone you have.
If it's >4 years old, that would be the smart choice.
Why not sync them to iCloud and delete from the device?
There is no price increase. The dollar is worth 20% less than a year ago.
Xcode should tell us the RAM in each device later this week.
Anything short of 10GB going into 2024 is horrible. I'm at 6GB and it's nowhere near enough.
You may think “sheep fanboys” are the naive ones but to me your take is more naive, and just shows you’re looking for someone to blame for your frustrations. Every product is a package of qualities that everyone values differently because value at its core is subjective (that’s why one can’t just add up the cost of parts to determine the value of a product). 256 GB is one quality that you apparently value strongly, but not everyone does. Others may strongly value things that you might not, such as titanium, periscope camera, etc. It’s foolish to consider your personal values objective.
It's also equally as foolish to believe that Apple can't keep up with other smartphones in terms of what we're offered and at what price point. They literally charge astronomical prices for any type of RAM upgrade on an iMac, when in theory, if we could just replace it ourselves with a cheaper alternative they wouldn't need to charge a premium.
I have a ‘one size fits all’ solution for everyone regarding new iPhones that come out every year. Or any new Apple product. YOU DON‘T HAVE TO PURCHASE IF YOU DON’T SEE THE VALUE IN IT FOR YOU OR IT’S NOT IN YOUR BUDGET.
Simple like a dimple.
Simple like a dimple.
Hmm different RAM and Storage vendors.
Hardware quality lottery again!
Okay, who will get the crappy ones (Micron, Hynix, Kioxia)?
Hardware quality lottery again!
Okay, who will get the crappy ones (Micron, Hynix, Kioxia)?
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Flash memory has never been cheaper. Heck, nowadays SSDs cost less per GB than magnetic drives, for the 1st time ever. It would be bordeline criminal not to double the storage capacity even if the phone was to be the same price.
But as with macbooks and their ridiculously overpriced upgrades, apple can afford it, because there’s no real competiton out there to steal their customers
More RAM is good but it's really hard for me to believe the iPhone 15 will have a better main camera than the iPhone 15 Pro, if current rumors verify. That's unacceptable for the price they're charging. Hopefully the 15 Pro is also getting the 48 MP stacked sensor with the smaller f/1.6 aperture.
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iCloud isn't a substitute for local storage. iCloud is slow, doesn't work for everything and doesn't work everywhere (e.g., planes)
I would only choose 1 TB if I am going to keep the phone for 10 years, which is unlikely.
I see people still have not learned this is Apple's BS storage playbook...they market a low starting price to attract buyers and they know no one will buy the 128GB version, and get to charge 100 bucks extra for an extra 128GB of storage in 2023 which costs them 10 bucks.
Big chunk of their margins comes from storage upgrade since the upgrade prices are ridiculous and are no where near any sane multiple of real cost (or what storage sells for on consumer market).
Big chunk of their margins comes from storage upgrade since the upgrade prices are ridiculous and are no where near any sane multiple of real cost (or what storage sells for on consumer market).
8 GB RAM on a Pro phone… this isnt Pro… Fisher Price probably put more RAM in their activity center toys. Storage needs to be at least 1 TB these days.
It would only be pathetic if that were the only option being offered. It's not.
So don't buy one then. It's as simple as that.
Agree with you on the ram to an extent (however, iOS doesn’t need as much RAM as Android…) but I still have 140GB free on my 256GB phone, and could easily fit my entire photo library on a 512GB phone. I really think 256 is fine for a large amount of people.
This makes business sense for them…
This is what they want… a customer in store or online looking first at the starting price… then thinking but if i add this, and this and this…
Theres a name for it im sure… some airlines do the same with their “cheap tickets” but by the time you add luggage and other extras… youre looking at a much more expensive overall package.
Kioxia are the best. That's Toshiba.
The worst will be if they go with QLC just to save money.