Anyone dealing with large image sets will buy the 64GB or 128GB Models. The 16GB model is for the parent or child who has no interest pretending to be a future professional movie maker or photographer.
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'iPhone 6s' Logic Board Suggests 16GB Base Model and Updated NFC Hardware
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Anyone dealing with large image sets will buy the 64GB or 128GB Models. The 16GB model is for the parent or child who has no interest pretending to be a future professional movie maker or photographer.
Cost of production. Having separate line for a phone with different internals is not economical.
It's not about pretending to be a pro photographer , hang out in tourists locations and notice how many older people are snapping away on thier phones these days ...
also many people do not delete thier images off thier phone, when hey get a new iPhone the images are restored from a previous backup.
The mighty can always fall. As a corporate buyer we are now spending the extra $100 to get to 64GB. That won't last forever if Apple doesn't add more value to the iPhone as part costs come down.
Clearly a cheap ploy to shift the perceived cost of an iPhone up $100 considering 16GB is barely usable anymore. Force everyone to get the 64GB and watch the money flow in. Brilliant for shareholders, lousy for everyone else.
i just have this idea ,,, just buy a save money pig , and put 2$ dollar each day ,,, start in september 2015 , then next year september 2016 take out you will get 750 $ dollar ,,, then no need to care about how many storage , 16 or 32 or 64
is that happy the whole world yet
is that happy the whole world yet
And what will they do next year? MAKE EVERYONE BUY 128 with a starting size of 64???
NO. ITLL BE ONE OPTION ONLY.128. With 128 being the cost that the 64 was.
And APPLE will get away with it because THEYRE APPLE. MUAHAHAHA
Even myself an avid Apple fan, I really don't understand the reasoning behind dropping the 32 and keeping the 16. Seems so ass backwards. It should have been, keep the 32 and drop the 16. iCloud storage or not.
16 GB, Phil Schiller can't be serious anymore
At least offer us 1 TB of space on iCloud or something, not an amount so little that you HAVE to pay extras.
And thinking about it, the difference between 16 GB or 32 GB must be like $5 for them, just shut up and put it in Apple.
Sadly, I had to do just that with iCloud. I'm only paying a dollar a month, but it was rather unnecessary if it weren't for my iPhone sucking down Apple cloud space.
I see why they wanted to buy Dropbox, but I'm still glad that they didn't.
This ploy did NOT work on me. Yes I bought the 16 anyway. Yes, I bought a 32 last year. And I would've bought another 32 if they had it, but they don't.
It's like forcing people to buy 128. 64 is too much and I WANTed the 32.
That was a mistake on apples part.
16 is too little but with cloud storage I can manage. Little does Apple know it's what got me into Google Play Music.
Buy at the lowest price!
People were in the apple stores asking where's the 32??
And given the option most people who were watching their wallets opted for the 16 anyway
I can't even imagine. I would never she'll money into iCloud paying by the bucketload to keep apps from sucking down the itty bitty 5gb of Apple cloud data and mostly for bloat ware apps that Apple won't even let you delete from the phone. Tsk tsk tsk they're not getting MY money.
The perspective here is that Apple should upgrade 16 GB to 32 GB for free, because they are somehow obligated. People have quickly forgotten that these same price tiers used to get them 16, 32, and 64 GB. Now that 32 and 64 have been upgraded to 64 and 128 GB for free, they feel entitled to 16 being upgraded to 32 for free as well. It really all just depends how you want to look at things. But people tend to go the entitlement route nowadays.
Isn't that their own fault? Sooner or later, if people need more storage, they will realize it and buy an iPhone with more storage and Apple will stop selling 16 GB phones. Let the market do its thing.
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It's almost comical the way some people here get so up in arms about a feature on a phone that's still more than two months from being announced, going by last year's schedule. The 16GB rumor is based on a prototype, so it may or may not happen, and we won't know about pricing until it's unveiled.
I did stop buying it, but then, they removed the option that most people were on.
What if they do it again this year?
They do. Better cameras, faster processors, rumored 2GB RAM, rumored force touch display. Apple has NEVER released a new iPhone without at least some value-added improvements. It's up to you as a corporate buyer to decide if they add value for your corporation, but Apple will do the math for its corporate value and they'll adjust the features based on what makes sense to them. If the ONLY thing that matters to you as a corporate buyer is the amount of storage, then there are plenty of other options for that most important criterion.
The best way to make Apple change its policy is for you to actually switch to something else. Threats that you don't follow through on are going to be dismissed in their calculations. It only works if you're a big enough customer, or if enough other customers do the same thing.
So many people complaining about 16GB being the entry level.
Either a lot of people here are buying this because they can't afford the 64GB, or there's a lot of complaints about nothing that doesn't affect people at all. I'm guessing the latter.
Either a lot of people here are buying this because they can't afford the 64GB, or there's a lot of complaints about nothing that doesn't affect people at all. I'm guessing the latter.
Where I live, the commuter train runs every hour most of the evening, and then the last run is after 2 hours. Why? I'm guessing there aren't enough people in those last hours to justify running the extra trains, so they make some people wait longer than they'd like, and some people have to get to the train earlier than they'd like so that along with the people who would ride at that time anyway there are enough people to justify the expense of the last run. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those people wish the arrangement were different and think that most of the world agrees with them. Surely, it's a conspiracy.
So, here we go again with the "Apple makes a phone I want, but I wish they didn't make a cheaper one that I don't want" arguments... I can understand whining if they didn't make a phone with enough storage ("I wish they made a 1TB version, 128GB isn't enough"), or if they didn't make a phone low end enough ("I wish they made a 4GB version, I don't want to pay for 16GB"). I do not understand the "I want more than 16GB, therefore they shouldn't even make a 16GB version" argument.
And then there's this:
"I wanted 80GB. That's what people really need. I'm soooooo pissed that Apple forces me to choose between 64GB and 128GB when what I need is 80GB. My sister and her friends swear that Apple is going to go out of business because they don't make a 96GB version-- don't they know how many pictures people take with these things? My mom wants 72GB. Total fail, Apple."
We're talking about $100 price tiers on something that costs you thousands over the couple years you own it. How finely should they dice it up?
So, here we go again with the "Apple makes a phone I want, but I wish they didn't make a cheaper one that I don't want" arguments... I can understand whining if they didn't make a phone with enough storage ("I wish they made a 1TB version, 128GB isn't enough"), or if they didn't make a phone low end enough ("I wish they made a 4GB version, I don't want to pay for 16GB"). I do not understand the "I want more than 16GB, therefore they shouldn't even make a 16GB version" argument.
And then there's this:
"I wanted 80GB. That's what people really need. I'm soooooo pissed that Apple forces me to choose between 64GB and 128GB when what I need is 80GB. My sister and her friends swear that Apple is going to go out of business because they don't make a 96GB version-- don't they know how many pictures people take with these things? My mom wants 72GB. Total fail, Apple."
We're talking about $100 price tiers on something that costs you thousands over the couple years you own it. How finely should they dice it up?
The 16GB iPhone is already $1000 AUD ($750 USD) and people want me to add another $100 onto that for something that costs Apple like $2? It must be the R&D costs...
The automobile industry does that too.
A car may start at $16,000... but the one you really want (and the one nearly everyone buys) is at least $20,000
Hardly anybody buys the base-model of the car... most go for the mid-tier or high-end tier.
They dangle the cheap model out there to get you in the door.
what a joke
2009 - 3G S - VGA video recording (640 by 480) - 16GB base storage
2015 - 6s - 4K video recording (3840 by 2160) - 16GB base storage
Schiller, one month ago:
"Schiller also said that using 16 GB storage for lower-end models allows Apple to save money for use on higher-end components"
He also said something else that makes no sense at all:
"The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music," he said, "that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load."
So these 'price-conscious' consumers are happy to spend a fortune on unlimited data plans, yet they like to save money on the iPhones they have?
Because for anyone to use WiFi services they need the photos and video on the device first to upload them.
"The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music," he said, "that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load."
So these 'price-conscious' consumers are happy to spend a fortune on unlimited data plans, yet they like to save money on the iPhones they have?
Because for anyone to use WiFi services they need the photos and video on the device first to upload them.
You are getting a 64 GB iPhone at the same price of a previous 32 GB iPhone. Why are you complaining about getting more storage at the same price as before?