I’m legitimately asking and not trolling.
Why does someone need 2TB on their phone. Laptop sure. iPad ok fine. But phone? Really?
If you’re professionally shooting video or raw photos you’ll probably have an SSD anyway to transfer files.
If you just want all your music saved - Apple says 10 GB for 1000 songs lossless so 2TB, minus say 200 mg for system files and other things, is 180000 songs, which, for an average of 3.25 mins per song, is 585,000 continuous hours of music or just over 66 years; so even if you were going to Mars for a 1 year mission, you wouldn’t need that much storage for music.
Photos: figure 100 mb for an uncompressed RAW file? So that’s 180,000 photos. If you’re shooting live at 1 second per photo that’s 50 hours of photography. If you’re just looking at store photos, you’ll have 180,0000 photos to look at? Maybe more. Again that’s assuming you want all your photos locally and never use the cloud.
Videos: ok so you want to watch movies or tv shows or whatever. at 30 gb/hr of 4k video, 1800 gb gives you 60 hours of 4K HD porn videos. I would submit that if you’re bringing your phone for a space mission or long camping trip, maybe bring your iPad for a larger screen instead? and if I were going to space, I’d probably bring a few SSDs with 1000s of hours of videos to entertain myself and the crew and they wouldn’t just live on my phone.
So in all seriousness, please. Someone help me understand why 2TB is needed on a phone?