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My only complaint with the iPhone6
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You can still delete the apps preinstalled by Apple and get a lot more if you don't want to use them...
If you do the math, you'd realize 114gb is too low. A device with 128 billion bits should register as 120GB.
If you do the math you will see that the 64 and 126 comes with extra apple apps. Remove them and you get the real OS numbers minus the conversion. We have this same discussion every time a phone is released. Get over it, move on, its correct.
Oh jeez...maybe search or read the forums before posting stuff like this. This is not an iPhone 6 related "issue" it's a perception/education issue and is the same for every phone and storage device out there.
My 64 gb is actually 55.7, when I take the time to do the math its about right when you figure the OS uses space. Apple calls 1gb 1000 mb but in reality 1gb is 1024. So if you do the math it will come up less then you have to subtract the OS space. Without the OS your phone would just be a black screen.
I understand, I was just clarifying that removing the iWork apps that are preinstalled isn't going to get any of that "missing storage" back. Your original post made it sound like you would get back space and that 114 would go up, but that is not the case.
I don't need to see responses. Its not a conspiracy, its just how digital storage is measured. Go buy a 32 gb sd card then see how much is actually on it.
Who said it was a conspiracy? Your original response, before you edited it, insinuated that the OS was responsible for the discrepancy which is not accurate. Your edit is actually the real reason.
32gb sd card will report at 30gb. 32gb iPhones report 27gb or so. I'm not sure how much the OS takes when uncompressed, but I'm not sure the device reports "0" usage on a fresh install either.
On the macbook side, Apple definitely overstates the size of their SSDs. The 512GB SSD in my macbook only has 500 billion bytes, not 512 billion.
Jesus, you people get touchy about stuff like this. Was only making a comment. Was not bashing the phone. I KNEW I was not going to get 128 GB. Love the phone. One little comment turns out to be a full blown argument. And for the record, I don't regret one bit the purchase.
Honestly what did you expect to get when you made this thread? Why even bring up capacity if you "expected it"?
Glad you love your phone, I love mine too, but by mentioning the capacity you only gave this thread one place to go.
It gets bigger as the memory grows plus you add on the OS. Its nothing that should be in a thread. Apple, micros soft, google, and every single for of tech memory company uses the numbers that are beneficial to them. If in the year 2014 or 2003 actually, you go out and buy a piece of tech that says 128 gbs on the package and you think it will be 128, then you need to do some research.
It should have 128 * 10^9 bytes. In other words, the number reported by the OS should always be 93% of the advertised number (assuming the units in question are gigabytes). You should try doing the math yourself before telling others to do research.
Also for whatever it's worth, the number reported in OSX should be equal to the advertised size since OSX uses the SI definitions of each prefix