'iPhone 6s' Logic Board Suggests 16GB Base Model and Updated NFC Hardware

Rufuss Sewell said:
I can't relate to all the hate for just making a cheaper 16gb version available?!?

If you want more get more. I've always gotten the max storage. 16gb is available to those who are cool with streaming, iCloud etc. and have good wifi at home and work.
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Because it is not cheaper. Same pricing as in 2008.
 
Abazigal said:
The main issue I see here is people ragging on the 16 GB iPhone model like it is the only variant in existence. A 32 GB model is not going to be enough for 4k recording at any rate (a 45-min hd video clip a least takes up 9 GB of storage)?

My proposed solution is to drop the 16 and 32 GB base model altogether and offer the 64 GB version as the new entry level model at $299. Like you said, if Apple truly cares about the user experience, they will ship a device with enough base storage to handle photos and video and apps. And the people who want an iPhone will continue to pay for one, regardless of the price.
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Sadly i see the 16gb as ploy for people spending more and upgrading to the 64gb. Also makes the iPhone seem cheaper :)

Let's me honest, all of us on here will go for the 64gb model at least, apple gets the extra money.
 
Solar Impulse, the aeroplane that is powered only by the sun, has landed in Hawaii after making a historic 7,200km flight across the Pacific from Japan.

Pilot André Borschberg, reached for his iPhone to tell his family he was safe and well .....battery flat!

Apple! If it wasn't for the extortionate prices you charge, I'd be thinking you've still not moved on from those 16gb models you used to do, either!


(NB: that 'story' was a joke by the way ... he didn't really pick,up,his iphone and call home-unfortunately the amount of memory on it actually is a joke too - come on - even gold is cheaper)
 
MH01 said:
Sadly i see the 16gb as ploy for people spending more and upgrading to the 64gb. Also makes the iPhone seem cheaper :)

Let's me honest, all of us on here will go for the 64gb model at least, apple gets the extra money.
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I have no qualms about giving Apple more money if it means getting a product that best meets my needs. My personal philosophy has always been that I would rather spend a bit more on a product that can best suit my needs, than spend a little less on something that I know I won't enjoy using.

I am all in on Apple products. It's not perfect, but it serves me well enough that I don't really bother sweating over the small stuff.
 
cheesyappleuser said:
Well, this is ridiculous.
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brunozs said:
They only make the 16gb because people buy it.

If you stop buying it, they'll stop making it, is that simple.
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I don't think so. If everybody would switch to paying the extra cash for 64gb, why would apple cut themselves out by offering a cheaper 32gb model?
Would be more logic to cutoff the 16gb entirely then.
Anyway, it shows that Tim's "Apple is not only for the rich" is plain marketing blabla. They simply want to squeeze as much money out of people as any other corporation, nothing special at all.
 
Michael Goff said:
I spend 50$ a month, plus 11$ for insurance (plus taxes and some small fees, obviously) for unlimited on my iPhone. >_>

I spent more for less on my last carrier.
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So converting in UK pounds is around £39 a month, that's an amazing deal!! :) In the UK that will get you only around 2GB usage allowance, plus you pay a lot for the for the 16GB iPhone still. But you may be able to haggle of course.
 
MH01 said:
so what, they check once , twice or 10 times, let's say it's says 1.7 GB left, one year to go on thier contract...what does that mean to an average user? Nothing, as they have no idea if it will be enough.

i assume your tech savvy, let's forget the iPhone and average user discussion...


A device with 16gb in 2015 and 12mb camera with 4K video with no option to add storage . Do you see an issue??? I do.
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The issue is you seriously think 4K on a smart phone is something that's not just a marketing checklist. But, they are UTTERLY GARBAGE, especially with the level of h265 compresion needed to not fill up your phone, smart phones barely do decent 1080P. Got the actual non smart phone equipment to know the difference... Not to mention they're a bitch to edit, modify on a smart phone (or even a desktop).

Nothing but a 64GB is adequate for storing 4K, even though I think doing so on a phone is pointless.

12MPx photos are 3-3.5MB at the lowest JPG compression level, same size of a 128kbs mp3 song. So, are you keeping 4000 photos on your device... Without backup? Why?

I've got a 16GB 3GS with 1500 songs, a 100 photos, a few TV episode (mp4) and 70 apps; didn't know I was missing out something. I also stream movies from my own DLNA server at home and on the internet, so I don't need more storage than that. Got an Ipad Air 2 and plan on getting a 6s to replace my aging 3GS.

Not saying no one needs 32, 64, 128 or even 256 MB; I'm saying you don't understand that there is a pretty large market of streamers and people who put everything on a remote server (even their own sometimes (like me)).
 
Apple is pathetic with their 16GB storage. But even more pathetic are people who are trying to justify this.
I mean, how can you justify 16GB of storage in 2015/16 ? How?

Something that would probably cost them a couple of dollars per unit. And isn't their philosophy to make best products they can make, without any compromises? Well, we can all see how true they are to their own claim.

And saying 16GB version is cheap is simply funny. 650$ isn't cheap. Neither is 650€ in EU. For that price Apple should put 32GB as minimum. But they don't care about their customers or their products anymore. If they did care, we would have 32GB of storage, we wouldn't have bending phones, wi-fi issues on macs, tons of bugs on yosemite, etc.

What we have here isn't the Apple we all loved and used to know. We simply have one big mega international corporation that is only interested in pure profit.
 
Keirasplace said:
The issue is you seriously think 4K on a smart phone is something that's not just a marketing checklist. But, they are UTTERLY GARBAGE, especially with the level of h265 compresion needed to not fill up your phone, smart phones barely do decent 1080P. Got the actual non smart phone equipment to know the difference... Not to mention they're a bitch to edit, modify on a smart phone (or even a desktop).

Nothing but a 64GB is adequate for storing 4K, even though I think doing so on a phone is pointless.

12MPx photos are 3-3.5MB at the lowest JPG compression level, same size of a 128kbs mp3 song. So, are you keeping 4000 photos on your device... Without backup? Why?

I've got a 16GB 3GS with 1500 songs, a 100 photos, a few TV episode (mp4) and 70 apps; didn't know I was missing out something. I also stream movies from my own DLNA server at home and on the internet, so I don't need more storage than that. Got an Ipad Air 2 and plan on getting a 6s to replace my aging 3GS.

Not saying no one needs 32, 64, 128 or even 256 MB; I'm saying you don't understand that there is a pretty large market of streamers and people who put everything on a remote server (even their own sometimes (like me)).
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I stream most of my data however you can't stream games and a lot easily take 1gb+ to install. E.x. Hearthstone
 
The only time I have had to complain about 16GB storage on my iPhone was during last years iOS update, I had to delete all music (which wasn't too bad as I had iTunes Match), video, apps ETC - now this is fixed with iOS9 this should stop 90% of complaints.

Although for me Apple could just start at 32GB without much difficulty, its just Apple being an Apple.
 
Abazigal said:
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?
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Because last year was the first time most people bought a 32GB. They only had bought it once. And now it's gone. Increasing the storage to 64 makes people think that it's now too expensive. That last year they had paid too much. And now that there's a lower base model, people are opting for that now.
 
nouveau-apple said:
Because last year was the first time most people bought a 32GB. They only had bought it once. And now it's gone. Increasing the storage to 64 makes people think that it's now too expensive. That last year they had paid too much. And now that there's a lower base model, people are opting for that now.
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That mentality strikes me as being "penny wise, pound foolish". They want to save a bit of money now only to run out of space later down the road? Then they are really asking for it, because I have never heard anyone complain that they are getting too much space for a particular price.
 
Analog Kid said:
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?
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Theres common ground somewhere. Why try to make people who want the 32 look crazy when Apple has been offering the 32 for years? A 64 isn't really one that I've been desiring. Everyone used to start out on a 16.

And even less desirable, the 128. iPhones are already priced beyond their value, so if you're gonna buy low tier, you'll have to buy low tier!
 
Abazigal said:
That mentality strikes me as being "penny wise, pound foolish". They want to save a bit of money now only to run out of space later down the road? Then they are really asking for it, because I have never heard anyone complain that they are getting too much space for a particular price.
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Well yes. Because, as people at Apple have told us they know, we have the cloud now. So for 1, I stream my whole library. And 2, that means less apps on my phone. When I had the 32 I would download multiple games, half of them I wouldn't play.

So it's really not the size that counts. It's what you do with it.
 
If the 6s has a 4k video camera, I can't wait for the flood of YouTube videos and local news stories, all showing how the 16Gigs gets filled in a couple minutes.

The killer ending will be - apples solution, is iCloud - then they will show how their couple minutes of video would bust 99% of all monthly mobile plans, equally as quickly.

Apple's quest for cash is just sad.
 
Count Blah said:
If the 6s has a 4k video camera, I can't wait for the flood of YouTube videos and local news stories, all showing how the 16Gigs gets filled in a couple minutes.

The killer ending will be - apples solution, is iCloud - then they will show how their couple minutes of video would bust 99% of all monthly mobile plans, equally as quickly.

Apple's quest for cash is just sad.
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Smh. I bet that's what will really happen. But then again if Apple does come out with a 4k phone, they would need a 4k display. Because right now 4k hasn't happened yet.
 
CmdrLaForge said:
Because it is not cheaper. Same pricing as in 2008.
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16GB was the maximum storage you could get in 2008. Base model was 8GB. This has a bigger screen, faster processor, FaceTime camera, compass, touchID and many features that weren't on the 2008 iPhone. The 2008 iPhone had a 2MP camera that wasn't very good.
 
Embarrassing and disappointing.
It's annoying to see a few brain washed people defending it here by saying buy the bigger version if you want and such..

well iPhone is a premium device,compromising on a now standard and necessary 32GB base storage is not-acceptable.

it costs nothing for them to up the storage to 32,yet they want to milk even last drop of profit from consumers.

It's sad.
 
Razeus said:
You still need to get the content on the device before you can upload it to the cloud...
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Eh? When have you ever had the original of anything JUST on your iPhone? Dropbox, Apple Music, Spotify, Plex, it all starts either in the cloud or on OS X.
 
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