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'iPhone 8' Said to Come in 64, 256, and 512GB Storage Capacities, All With 3GB of RAM
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Because not everyone has unlimited data on their mobile plan. Here in the UK there are very few unlimited mobile data plans - so downloading from the cloud isn't always an option
....and as stated in an earlier comment, not everyone wants all/any of their data in any sort of cloud.
Nothing directed at you, but who cares about this?
Really. If the fate of the world was in your hands and you had to do some sort of computing to SAVE US ALL, would you rather tap away on your phone or sit down in front of a desktop computer?
It's great phones are powerful. It's great they are faster than the computers that got a man to the moon. But isn't this all inevitable?
Hurray. Yeah.
Move on...
64GB for me. That's more than plenty for my needs.
Maybe everyone will go for the higher storage units making the 64GB model more achievable
Maybe everyone will go for the higher storage units making the 64GB model more achievable
I love the mini steps. But recently I noticed how many people are addicted to telephones. They drive, bike and walk with it all the time. I have observed old couple at restaurant. They were on the Iphone 7 plus and even were busy with it while eating. I'm out. No more phones !!
If you want have plenty of apps and games and take a lot of photos and videos 16 GB is really hopeless.
Even without doing those things I think since iMessage can take around 2,5 GB locally if you don't delete conversations – easy to saturate the 16 GB for most users I think.
You know the SSD in your Mac and the Flash in your iOS devices are different, right? They have different archetechtures, rated differently, different speeds, different lifespan, different costs for manufacturing and more.
Because streaming and clould storage don't work when you are flying?
Because when we travel internationally, roaming data charges are kinda expensive... maybe a bit more than just a little?! Because some files are too sensitive or private to store in the clould without end-to-end encryption, and not that many people are technically inclined enough to do that?!
it's more than clear, that majority of people would be more than fine with 128G, that's the only reason why they don't offer it, to force people buy more expensive version. I hate this strategy, especially with MBP
Depends entirely on compression and bitrate. 4K and 4mbps, meh won't take up much space. And why not, you seen how compressed and ****** itunes 1080P is?
We don’t all live in Switzerland.
You have 4G on top of a snowy mountain? You probably ment a hill.
No way for the cloud. My wife had uploaded a bunch of pictures to iCloud and this has been 3-4 years ago but when she went to download them to her computer most came back all pixelated. We do still put minor stuff on iCloud now but the main question is this: Why wouldn't I want my music with me? I go outdoors in some remote regions with no cell reception and I sure do not to be paying for a streaming service.
Not arguing against you by no means but for me personally the "cloud" does absolutely nothing for me.
And we will never chance pictures to icloud again no matter what. No idea what happened to cause the picture corruption but those stay on the phone and on a hard drive plus a back up drive as well.
It's only able to be implemented on A9 chips and up.
Edit: I forgot that only the phones with A9 and up can even shoot 4K so Apple may have just not implemented it yet.
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Edit: ooops, sorry. Don't know why this post ended up here. It was meant for: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...team-mac-app-store-coming-soon.2062921/page-2
True, it's not flawless at the moment, but I think at least the support for the Pascal GPUs is concerned to be beta. I'm sure things will get better. I've even emailed Nvidia about some issues and they've been responsive.
What games utilizing Metal are having issues? I can pass the problems on (if it's something I haven't already done).
I think I read somewhere that the Pascal version of the mobile GPUs are pretty close to their big brother desktop versions. But like you say there's of course a difference between them at the same – power consumption, clock speed, size and cooling.
Still, I've beem using various Apple laptop models for gaming over the years and while they sure get hot and the fans spinn like crazy, nothing has broken down on them.
True, it's not flawless at the moment, but I think at least the support for the Pascal GPUs is concerned to be beta. I'm sure things will get better. I've even emailed Nvidia about some issues and they've been responsive.
What games utilizing Metal are having issues? I can pass the problems on (if it's something I haven't already done).
I think I read somewhere that the Pascal version of the mobile GPUs are pretty close to their big brother desktop versions. But like you say there's of course a difference between them at the same – power consumption, clock speed, size and cooling.
Still, I've beem using various Apple laptop models for gaming over the years and while they sure get hot and the fans spinn like crazy, nothing has broken down on them.
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So I had an iPhone 4 with 32 GB - Brilliant. Plenty of space.
Two years later the iPhone 6 drops 32 GB - Damn… I’ll go to 64 GB then.
Two years later the iPhone 7 drops 64 GB - Damn… I’ll go to 128 GB then.
iPhone 8 drops 128 GB. Damn…
These guys know *exactly* what they’re doing.
Two years later the iPhone 6 drops 32 GB - Damn… I’ll go to 64 GB then.
Two years later the iPhone 7 drops 64 GB - Damn… I’ll go to 128 GB then.
iPhone 8 drops 128 GB. Damn…
These guys know *exactly* what they’re doing.
very few people really need 256G (I don't say it's not nice to have it), Apple should rather start putting a reasonable amount to MBP, then you will be able to fully backup your phone and still have couple of GB left lol
I agree if I never took out the trash I would need a 20,000 sq foot home.
Still playing the silly storage game then. 64gb next tier up is four times the size. Dear me.
Still can't be any more of a POS than the iPhone 7..
Still can't be any more of a POS than the iPhone 7..
People are forgetting that it'll have the new H.265 compression, which is double the compression of H.264, but with the same video quality. Theoretically, it'll take up half the amount of storage.
For photos, HEIC is the alternative to JPG and will also cut storage up to half.
For photos, HEIC is the alternative to JPG and will also cut storage up to half.