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iPhone 5 prices?
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Why does it seem like so many people are so caught up in the idea that iCloud would somehow eliminate the need for storage capacity. Some people actually do have significant music libraries that they want to take with them, believe it or not. Imagine the data charges if you just streamed your entire library all the time.
And also, before anybody asks why one would "need" to have 64gb worth of music with them all the time, the fact is Apple markets the iPhone as a way to combine your phone and your iPod so you don't have to carry both. Until its actually a viable alternative to the iPod storage wise, I just don't think it lives up to that particular mantra.
it wouldn't matter if streaming were cost effective over a limited data plan (for example, if apple secured a deal to make iCloud data usage not count against monthly data limits), as iCloud is not a streaming service. If you want a song, you have to download it onto your device. This can be done from the cloud, but it still has to be on your device to listen to it...
Yeah I think, I knew that in the back of my mind. I was tired and on percocet (just got the wisdom teeth out) when I made that post. The point I was really trying to make is that iCloud really won't have any affect on the amount of storage a person would need, but thanks for clearing it up. It just irks me when people think that because THEY don't need something, nobody else should, and iPod/iPhone storage space seems to be a recurring example. W/e.
In my case.......
If the iphone 5 has more under the hood and not only asthetics then i'll buy one whatever the price !!
If the iphone 5 has more under the hood and not only asthetics then i'll buy one whatever the price !!
It takes about five seconds for me to play any given song on my iPhone. If I have a song I purchased but it's no on my phone, it probably takes me at least a minute to go find it listed in iCloud and then probably another minute to download it.
If you do this all the time, you're going to waste a lot of time searching and downloading, and you're going to use a ton of data. I want a phone with tons of fracking storage space. I could easily use 64GB as I have proven with my iPad. I think my entire music library is 40GB. That doesn't include any videos, apps or pictures.
iCloud is remote backup, not streaming audio.
The problem I have seen with all the cloud services as a replacement for stored music is that none of them have enough storage. iCloud is 5G... Amazon cloud is 5G before you have to play... we don't know what Google music will be. So if I only get 5 or 10G to store music how is that exactly better then a 32G or 64G phone? Only if I had a way to store 100G or more of MY content (not just what is in Spotify or itunes store) does any cloud service start to become a replacement for locally stored content for me. YMMV. So personally I would love a 64GB iPhone and that would be an easy purchase for me.