Guess what? a 32 gb iphone could make calls, text, gps, web browsing and access your file management app just as good. This is no excuse to have a 16gb model unless it is a budget phone.
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Guess what? a 32 gb iphone could make calls, text, gps, web browsing and access your file management app just as good. This is no excuse to have a 16gb model unless it is a budget phone.
Which is a perfectly reasonable desire.
It's achieving just what is says, i.e. there's no cord between the charger and my phone. It's convenient in the car when you can eliminate the hassle with plugging and unplugging the charging cable. In addition, as my "nightstand" is actually a shelf almost an arm's length above my pillow, wireless charger is extra convenient compared to a wired one. I can just put my phone there and have it charge through the night (so the slower charging speed doesn't really matter). When my alarm goes off, I can just grab the phone with one hand and avoid all the hassle with the cable falling on my face etc.
Your use-case is irrelevant. By this logic all you need is a box of iPhone 4s (or less) from eBay.
The point is not the use-case. The point is a company (especially one like apple) to maintain a certain level of technology to correspond with the age. IE: They can't get away with 1GB RAM anymore even though it would had worked fine. Its time to move on from 16GB.
I care about not wasting power, which has to do with more than just me. I'm not bashing people who want it, I'm bashing the technology.
We have 128GB on the iPhone 6 plus and 6S plus.
It would be nice to have 256GB. With kids, spouse photos etc, someone is always wanting something else on there. "Another 3 movie" "The photos from the last 10 years" etc. (or 512 or 1024 eventually). And extra $100 or something to go to 256GB is an easy sell as an option.
It would be nice to have 256GB. With kids, spouse photos etc, someone is always wanting something else on there. "Another 3 movie" "The photos from the last 10 years" etc. (or 512 or 1024 eventually). And extra $100 or something to go to 256GB is an easy sell as an option.
That's the problem with arguing with Apple. Their engineers are bigger and have more powerful calculators than you. You still have plenty of options: Don't buy and iPhone. Buy an older iPhone. Steal an iPhone. Offset the cost of of the new iPhone by selling your old one to someone else. But you won't be able to argue Apple into selling you their newest iPhone at the price you think is fair. They will escort you to the door.
Apple doesn't need an excuse. They will increase the memory on their base models when it suits their business model.
I used to have to work with the general public. Believe me. 16GB is not anywhere near enough for the vast majority of users. Most people who buy a 16GB phone run out of storage very quickly.
I can't believe some people actually want Apple to keep the base model at 16GB. It's like corporate 1984 double-think. What they don't seem to realize is that for Apple, it's literally a matter of pennies to buy 32GB instead of 16GB. For a $600+ phone, that's simply inexcusable.
I completely understand why Apple does it. If I was the owner or had stake in Apple, they I would want them to keep it at 16gb. What I don't understand is why a consumer like you would take Apple side when you won't benefit.
You will be amazed to hear that the Power Mac has a connector on it from 1970, and it's shockingly analog!
And yes, I will complain also if Apple decides to roll their own and abandon IEC 60320.
I hope if you own a car it is a prius since you care so much about wasting power. Or do you only care when it is convenient for you?
Complaining about 16GB is weak, you're really complaining about price. Stop complaining about 16GB and stop holding your phone like Steve Jobs. If Apple offered each storage increment for $5 more, you wouldn't be complaining about 16GB.
Complaining about 16GB being not enough to enjoy the iPhone to its full potential is weak when Apple offers larger storage options.
Complaining about clueless people buying 16GB and thinking iOS sucks is weak. A valid complaint would be Apple employees not informing new buyers that 16GB is not a lot of storage to enjoy the iPhone to its full potential.
With the direction they're heading it could be possible that 256gb will be an option on iPhone 7. But it's not the way people think the kind tier they offer right now. With Tim Cook's idea to offer more choices and options. The 256gb could the added choice 16, 64, 128, 256. IMHO.
that is true. Persons like myself who complain about 16gb is really complaining about the cost of only getting a 16gb. Can't deny that. However why are you defending Apple if you don't own or have any Stake in Apple. We are both consumers of their products, shouldn't we both want the same thing. i.e. want more from the products we purchase from these companies?
Why take Apple side is what I don't get when people defend Apple. If you own shares / stocks in Apple then fine I will see where you're coming from.
Except the 3GS, which was the first to come with a 32GB option.
Oh, and the 4S, that was the first to come with a 64GB option.
3GS was also the first to bump the base storage (launch time, smaller variants were introduced later on) to 16GB. Yes, it's that old.
The problem is my "Other" is very small in iTunes. Documents and Data is large, yet on the iPhone under storage, if you add up all the apps and usage, it's nowhere near what the iPhone says is "in use" and "available". I've been using an app called FUNBOX to see the files on the iPhone and delete manually.
But Apple makes much more profit than the competition and that is what most consumers care about.
I bicycle everywhere I go. I even used to bicycle when I went to the next town 18 miles away. If I need to go otherwise, I try to carpool. I always limit my footprint.
I'm complaining about 16GB storage in 2016 as Apple is (or at least has been) driven by user experience and yet they still sell an expensive phone with storage that's all too easily insufficient when considering the phone's capabilities (4k video, live photos). It's like using early alpha/beta software. You'll be mostly fine if you stick to certain well-defined scenarios, but outside those you'll be in trouble really soon. Not quite the experience you'd expect for that money.
Oh wow, that is good. Be careful on the roads...many crazy drivers as I bet you already know.
