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Phil Schiller Talks 16 GB iPhones and Thinness vs Battery Life Tradeoffs
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It is. That's how many people use their phones (not just email or calls though), and they keep buying 16gb models.
Flash prices have been dropping drastically, what you talking bout Schiller.
Talk about reality distortion field. 16GB is just too little these days. that is fact. and Cell networks are so annoying at times that relying on the cloud too much when your on the go is a bit of a pain.
Apple is known to have high margins on their products, so Phil's opinion is tied to keeping that. The higher profits are often directly tied to apple's use of less RAM. older graphics chips in iMacs, laptops and such or sticking with intel graphics.
Apple has ceased to offer any notion of hardware performance. as they don't upgrade hardware nearly as often as their competitors and when they do, they stick with parts which aren't always top of the line.
Apple is known to have high margins on their products, so Phil's opinion is tied to keeping that. The higher profits are often directly tied to apple's use of less RAM. older graphics chips in iMacs, laptops and such or sticking with intel graphics.
Apple has ceased to offer any notion of hardware performance. as they don't upgrade hardware nearly as often as their competitors and when they do, they stick with parts which aren't always top of the line.
Yes, no ****. Nobody is questioning that. WTF?
Well, you're the one who said that it's not the topic of conversation.
I only commented on how most 16gb owners have no issues, finding the "balance." Then someone replied to me about how he has to erase apps and pictures. Then my reply was that even without having to manage storage space, these people use their phones just fine.
You have no idea what you're talking about. You keep generalizing and making silly comments on "finding the balance." There wouldn't be a need to find the "balance" (whatever the hell that means) if there was more storage space. Apps are bigger now, pics are bigger now, videos are bigger now, and 5 GB of Cloud storage is laughable. Since you don't see the issue with 16 GB, I'm done discussing this with you.
Even some senior citizen friends, who no one would consider power users, are filling up their 16 GB devices. With all of the photos and videos people are taking these days, 16 GB just won't do.
But on the topic of being bold and being aggressive, I like that too. But being bold and aggressive shouldn't come at the risk of usability, like it did with the one USB-C port on the new Macbook. I can see how they're pushing the envelope, but how is handicapping the number of ports in any way an improvement?
I never said people have to find the balance so they won't run out of storage. Furthermore, I never said I don't have issues with 16gb.
It's called basic marketing, the 16 gig phone is their OPP (Opening Price Point). Every retailer works the same way, the least expensive item is also the least profitable. It's the sales person's or marketing department's job to sell people up to more expensive models that are more profitable. They will resist making the OPP more attractive for as long as they can. Making the OPP phone more attractive will cost them money and eat into their profits by reducing the number of people who can be 'sold up' to the next, more profitable, phone.
I have never worked for Apple, I did work in retail sales for a few years and that's how retail sales work.
I have never worked for Apple, I did work in retail sales for a few years and that's how retail sales work.
Again, basic marketing, they don't want people to buy the OPP 16 gig phone. It's their least profitable phone.
Yes, basic marketing. No retailer wants a customer to buy their least expensive model. When I was working in retail, a sales person would be fired for selling to many OPP's. If you can't afford the more expensive item, deal with the inconveniences of the least expensive.
When Apple determines that they are losing more money (potential customers going to another brand) than they are making (customers upgrading to 64 gig phone) they will change it. Not before.
It's not about the date, it's about having an OPP model that can easily be up sold to more profitable phones. Basic marketing.
i really dislike phil schiller. he seems to be the primary source of this "you dont know what is best for you, we do"... hey look a bunch of crusty old white men telling us they know whats best for us. sound like anything else to you?
Works for selecting Grammy nominations/winners, hit song writing of popular music & dictating radio play.
Old white men just know... listen to Tim & Phil...
You vastly under estimate the cost to Apple in putting a 32 gig chip in their OPP model. When they look at the cost they include how many upgrades to the, more profitable, 64 gig phone they would lose. Basic marketing.
Wikileaks is about to blow the top off Apple & the storage space issue will be exposed on why Apple does this for business purposes.
Info will be released soon to expose Apple's Nazi(a harshly domineering, dictatorial, or intolerant person) like business culture & practices.
The cost is calculated in how many $100 dollar upgrades they will lose, not the cost of the chip. Basic marketing.
hey if you are not happy with 16gb whereas competing galaxy s6 has 32gb, you are using your 16gb the wrong way! Optimize your photos. Install less apps. Who told you to take so many pictures? Buy some 20gb icloud storage for $1 a month because Apple could really use that $12 a year to prevent going bankrupt.
Of course Apple is doing it for business purposes, they are a business. Basic marketing.
And you should look up the definition of 'Nazi'.
