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Potential 'iPhone SE' Packaging Confirms 16GB Base Storage and NFC for Apple Pay

Loving the design of that rendering. It's like a hybrid of the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6. Here's to hoping the iPhone 7 takes some inspiration from this!
 
I'm likely one of the reasons Apple keeps the 16 gb around. My iPhone 6 still has 7.1gb available. I store most of my apps, photos, and music on my 64 gb iPad.

ETA: I'm not defending Apple on this, i realize I'm not a typical user.
 
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waterskier2007 said:
Apple Pay is obviously going to be included. They wouldn't put out a new phone without it.
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Truth. Might save a few dollars on the device but they'd potentially lose as much as thousands in the fees they collect each time someone uses Apple Pay. Not worth the trade off at all.
 
Guys, say it costs $1 more to do a 32 GB. Times 100 million phones is 100 million dollars. The Phones are still selling anyway. My mom would be good with 8 GB... I am still using my 16 GB iPhone 6+ to post this. I don't take many pictures or videos, I don't play games, my most used apps are messages, mail, Safari, quora, and a couple banking and work related apps. I'm not a programmer or do anything tech related anymore, I own and run a restaurant and play viola around town and compose. I can't run Finale or Sibelius on the phone, lol. I have an iPad pro I use for music apps and as my sheet music now, it's really good for that. Also I'm probably downsizing to the SE (small edition) or whatever it's gonna be called because I keep my phone in my pocket and it's just too big and so is the regular size 6s. I think it's great if you carry a purse all the time but in the pocket it's huge especially when I usually wear shorts.
 
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*Reads title about packaging
*Sees picture of iPhone
*Heart sinks that it looks so bad
*Reads "possible design based on rumours"
*Writes irate post regarding ugly render
*Goes back to read article
 
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I am with most people here probably, and think 16GB is too low to use the thing 'properly' (i.e. a moderate number of potential uses of the functionality the phone has available including apps, photos, videos etc).

However I think a twitter poll (as mentioned in the article) is likely to be skewed towards the more tech-friendly user, and some people, the ones possibly less likely to be using twitter, really will be fine with a cheaper, low-capacity phone if they take photos/videos very rarely and don't bother with many apps at all. It may seem bizarre to most of us, but I can see how making a 16GB model makes sense for Apple, and for some users. As long as it isn't *only* a 16GB model! So I think the quoted 2 percent is likely on the low side as a reflection of how many people would actually be ok with a 16GB iPhone.

Before the iPhone came out I think many of us just wanted a phone that would sync and play nicely with OS X, because what came before was often a kludgey mess of applications, iSync and some features that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't and then would break when OS X got updated... it's easy to forget what that was like now we've been spoiled by years of iPhones.

Still, I still agree with those saying starting at a 16GB minimum capacity is kind of silly in 2016. I'm sure the cost difference between 16GB and 32GB (or even 64GB) is extremely small for Apple, even more so relative to how much more useful it makes the device for the user, regardless of how much the cloud is involved or not.
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If you're taking the tech friendly vs less tech friendly route, based in what you said, you're not taking into consideration the less tech friendly opting for 16gb without realizing it won't be enough for them. And if you're allowed to take a big assumption that less tech friendly people take less photos and that the number of such people is significant, I can also say a larger number of people take pictures/videos with their phones, regardless of how tech friendly they are or not.

I'll make another assumption, many that choose the 16gb model do so, because of price. They'd be just as happy if not happier with more storage. So Apple starting with anything more than 16gb won't have anything to do with ones preference over storage size.

I'll take this a step further. If you're not tech friendly, you're most likely (yes, another assumption) not using iTunes Match/Music, iCloud Drive or any other cloud solutions; purchase iCloud Drive; change the resolution settings in the camera app; or even change iCloud Photo Library settings. So their storage has a higher chance of filling up. If that's the case how user friendly is Apple being by proving a 16gb base model?
 
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I'm going to buy one regardless but I really hope this isn't the design they are releasing. That thing is fugly.

If that is indeed the iphone SE then it shows a lack of imagination on the part of Apple.
 
I have nothing to complain. 16GB and 64GB makes it for an easy decision. If so than 64 it is. 32 or 64 GB and I would have to think long and hard. Is the base storage enough for me? Not if I want to take my music library with me! Do I want to keep my music stored locally or am I switching to streaming?

Decisions, Decisions.
 
newdeal said:
my wife has an 8gb iphone 5C...what a pain in the butt that thing is we are constantly having to try to find things to delete. Who knew Facebook, snapchat and instagram all end up taking like 500 megatbyes of space somehow on the phone and you only start with around 4.7gb free after the OS is installed. What an abomination that thing is and its only maybe 2 years old. They should never have been selling 8gb 5Cs
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If you cut corners and buy a phone with just 8GB internal storage, then you should really have expected to run into capacity issues sooner or later.
 
Some people are still OK with 16 Gigs, you must know that people posting here on MR is fairly small amount of worldwide iPhone users. But I would say, it is already time to set 32 as minimum. I hope it has 2GB of RAM.
 
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Number-Six said:
Not everyone has unlimited bandwidth to enjoy those cloud services
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You're right. Now, if only Apple would offer larger capacity devices for people who don't want to store stuff in the cloud or need more storage for whatever reason...


For what it's worth, both my iPhone and iPad are 128GB because anything less wouldn't work for me, but I don't see the problem with Apple offering people the choice of a lower capacity or a higher one: that way everyone is happy (or so you'd think ;))
 
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How can there be no 128 option?

My iPod Touch, which is much smaller, (and full BTW), is 128.

Of course there will be a 128 option.

What is sad is that there is no 256, or even higher option.

I bought a $150 BLU phone and stuck a 200 gig SIM in it, so storage wise it blows my iPhone 6s+ 128 away, for $220.

It's slowly becoming my main phone.

I don't know how much longer Apple can sustain the reality distortion pricing model.
 
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Guys, say it costs $1 more to do a 32 GB. Times 100 million phones is 100 million dollars. The Phones are still selling anyway. My mom would be good with 8 GB... I am still using my 16 GB iPhone 6+ to post this. I don't take many pictures or videos, I don't play games, my most used apps are messages, mail, Safari, quora, and a couple banking and work related apps. I'm not a programmer or do anything tech related anymore, I own and run a restaurant and play viola around town and compose. I can't run Finale or Sibelius on the phone, lol. I have an iPad pro I use for music apps and as my sheet music now, it's really good for that. Also I'm probably downsizing to the SE (small edition) or whatever it's gonna be called because I keep my phone in my pocket and it's just too big and so is the regular size 6s. I think it's great if you carry a purse all the time but in the pocket it's huge especially when I usually wear shorts.
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This is one of the most idiotic posts on MR I have seen in a while, so I had to respond.

Hey, say Apple makes a profit of $200 on one phone. Times 100 million phones is 20 billion dollars. The phones are still selling anyway.

Your maths.

Are you seriously writing that the $1 it costs to upgrade to 32GB is costly for Apple? There is simply no excuse except for "consumers" like you who will buy whatever garbage Apple throws their way with their eyes closed.

It's not wrong to be an informed consumer.
 
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Blujelly said:
I'll never see why the 16Gb sells for what it does, then 2 days later people complain about the storage? :S
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It's not "for what it does". The issue is that it sells. If consumers would refuse to buy the 16Gb version, Apple would not make them anymore. Instead, so many of us buy the 16Gb version that Apple is motivated to keep making them. Profit drives business decision-making, not what's subjectively best for entry-level products. Apple will sell a ton of 16Gb iPhones in 2016. Until the majority of consumers wise up and stop trading dollars for them, Apple is just doing "what works".
 
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