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Everyone can decide whether want storage in phone and comfort or will be offloading it to other storage.
But the other storage also cost something. And you have to maintain it. Any adult have to make its math and decide.
If iPhone is users only computing device than it has to stick with iCloud as you can not backup to other cloud. You can backup your contacts and some settings but not whole phone and can not backup phone without baking up photos as well.
You can get 50 GB cloud free but you can only offload media there. Nothing more.
That is just few thoughts.
But the other storage also cost something. And you have to maintain it. Any adult have to make its math and decide.
If iPhone is users only computing device than it has to stick with iCloud as you can not backup to other cloud. You can backup your contacts and some settings but not whole phone and can not backup phone without baking up photos as well.
You can get 50 GB cloud free but you can only offload media there. Nothing more.
That is just few thoughts.
It was quite bad so certainly a forgettable name. Although, it redeemed itself with this game.
Clearly you've never bought a Porsche. Even Apple would be embarrassed to use that level of margin.
I switched to cloud storage about 2 years ago. Noticed I was using about 35GB of interneal storage with my at the time 128GB 7+. With most of my photos on the cloud, streaming all of my music via Spotify I have switched to the 64GB and have had no issues. I’m not an app whore either I try an keep things clean. All in all I’m happy because I save money on storage and still save everything I need.
Same. I've gone back and forth whether to upgrade this year to the XR, but every time I use my 7 Plus, I'm left with the thought, "this phone is fantastic in basically every way," and now that there are YouTube videos showing App opening times, game loading times, etc etc etc, basically any real world usage scenario, the 7 Plus is matching the XS Max in speed. So the real question is this: Is the iPhone XR/XS/XS Max worth upgrading at a minimum cost to me of either $40/mo or $600 (for the XR) out of pocket on top of what I can sell my 7 Plus for, just to get a better screen and Face ID? The answer is no. The 7 Plus is that good and iOS 12 is that efficient that I can wait another year.
Never saw a fellow Porsche owner complain.
Between tequipment options and the exclusive program at Porsche. We love the ability to personalize the car to our specifications, and yes this comes at a cost, but one that customers are willing and eager to pay.
Most do complain about time involved in waiting for a car to be completed.
Do you mean the storage used by expensive DSLR cameras and high end portable music players? That cheap, unreliable and way slower storage?
Oh I can totally agree (without conflicting with my own original post) , I would _not_ complain at all with 128GB starting storage.
I'm actually skipping an iPhone upgrade this year, I had such a blast doing a 2 year upgrade to my current X (you know, since it was such a major upgrade and design change), I kind of want to experience that again, and my X works so fantastically well combined with no desire for the larger XSM.
Sorry... but paying nearly $1500 for an iPhone is getting ridiculous. It doesn't matter how much disposable income one has. At some point, it just becomes a waste of money. That's of course just my opinion. $1,000 is the limit for me. The watch, too. I bought the LTE version and somehow it seemed more expensive than last year's models at $529. That's actually a pretty good deal for what you get... I hope it doesn't keep creeping upward like the iPhones.
US$50 to go from 64 GB to 128 GB on the Xr is quite reasonable IMO.
My original plan was to get a Max and pass down my 128 GB 7 Plus to my wife to replace her 6s.
When I saw the crazy pricing of CAD$1954 incl. tax for the 256 GB Max, I changed gears. I'm just going to keep my 7 Plus, and I'll get her an Xr 128 GB for CAD$1242 incl. tax. That's over a CAD$700 difference. The 256 GB Xs Max is a whopping 57% more than a 128 GB Xr. Wow.
Oh I can totally agree (without conflicting with my own original post) , I would _not_ complain at all with 128GB starting storage.
I'm actually skipping an iPhone upgrade this year, I had such a blast doing a 2 year upgrade to my current X (you know, since it was such a major upgrade and design change), I kind of want to experience that again, and my X works so fantastically well combined with no desire for the larger XSM.
I agree. 128 GB as the starting option for the flagship model would be OK. With 64 GB available for XR, 8 and 7.
Are you comparing personalizing a Porsche to personalizing an android home screen and widgets.
It’s not very comparable.
I went to the store and played with the Max, compared to my 7 Plus.
For the camera, the Max seems a bit faster, but the 7 Plus is fast enough. For the UI, the Max is slightly faster, but the 7 Plus is already speedy. For surfing there is no significant difference most of the time, because it seems the real bottleneck is not the rendering speed, but the speed of the internet access. And by that I don't mean just your download speeds, but the server speeds. Surfing in busy times on some sites means just waiting for the site, regardless of how fast the download speeds are.
So basically there are just two things I like about the Max more, in this order:
1) More vertical screen space on the Max.
2) Better sensor on Max camera.
I won't be putting that CAD$1954 toward a Max this year.
However, as mentioned above, I will spend CAD$1242 on an Xr 128 GB for the wife.My iPod had 160GB (2007), and my iPhone X is the first iPhone I’ve had that can truly replace that device with its 256GB. Regardless of the move to solid state memory, they didn’t want to keep expanding device capacities. That would have competed too much with Apple Music.
Now that Apple Music is taking off they should open the flood gates and push their iCloud storage by maxing out device capacities. Migrate iTunes to the cloud for old school users, migrate Time Capsule to the cloud, make Photos work well with iCloud (still a poor user experience)...
Now that Apple Music is taking off they should open the flood gates and push their iCloud storage by maxing out device capacities. Migrate iTunes to the cloud for old school users, migrate Time Capsule to the cloud, make Photos work well with iCloud (still a poor user experience)...
Don't get me wrong, I couldn't care less about the ability to personalize an Android phone. What I am saying is that I prefer Apple over Android even though the latter allows for more personalization (naturally, as there are so much more Android phones available). So when you say you are fine with paying a premium for the ability to personalize, I can see how that makes sense in the Porsche context, but not in the Apple context. Here, you pay premium without the personalization (especially on the hardware side, no SD card slots etc.).