so buy a $200 16gb and a $100 stick to expand memory? Why? A person is just better off spending that extra $100 on getting the 64gb to begin with
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The 16GB iPhone is NOT a ripoff
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Most likely written a couple of days ago by someone at Apple's PR department. He is clearly a shill but not a good one.
Why should consumers shell out even more money, when it is something Apple (One of the most valuable companies in the world) should be including on their base line phone given its 2015 and they're supposedly selling the best phone experience they can.
How do you know this?
And more importantly, why is this so very personal to you? So people think having little storage space don't think it's worthwhile. Why is it making you so heated?
And by the way, I'm a long time lurker, first time poster, joining just to say your argument that it's not a ripoff because it increases profits is pretty dumb.
It's amazing how people pull numbers out of a hat an no one contests it.
The app clearly states that a 4k video uses 375MB a minute. 1GB is a gross exaggeration. You can record 30 minutes of 4k video using 12 GB of space. Are you really going to keep half an hour of video on your iPhone?
Honestly, you sound like a street corner preacher rambling on and on and telling anyone who disagrees with them that they'll go to hell.
You keep using the word facts, I do not think that word means what you think it means. Opinions is what you have, not facts.
That's some heavy compression then, because most Android phones are in the range of 1GB/min for 4k.It's amazing how people pull numbers out of a hat an no one contests it.
The app clearly states that a 4k video uses 375MB a minute. 1GB is a gross exaggeration. You can record 30 minutes of 4k video using 12 GB of space. Are you really going to keep half an hour of video on your iPhone?
Apple can barely keep up with demand the first 6 months of an iPhone release and you want them to LOWER prices?
If you wait 6 months you should be able to get discounting iPhones
Except you won't have that much space after you've installed your everyday apps on it, take a few pictures now and then etc. Suddenly you have to juggle storage space by either uploading to the cloud or backing up on your computer, neither of which would be constantly necessary if they simply offered a 32 GB version.
I pointed out the thing about corporate not because corporate *wants* a low memory device, they just happen to put out plenty of demand for whatever the low end device is because the low end device fully meets their needs. They are not going to go, "Oh, god, you bumped it to 32GB, we're not buying that, too much memory for our employees to fill up." The reality is that demand dictates what Apple puts out there, and there appears to be plenty of demand for the 16GB device.
I ordered a 64GB device not because of 4K video or the Harry Potter pictures or whatever, but because I have lots of music I like to keep on my phone. If it weren't for that, I could live in 16GB. My current phone is 32GB, and it fits me just fine. And whoever said that kids don't take pictures or video has not met my kids. If I were buying phones for them, they'd be getting the low end unless they ponied up the money for the bump. As it is, they get their parents' hand-me-down's, and they'll like whatever that happens to be. Right, kids? *gives the stern side eye, the kids know better than to say no*
I ordered a 64GB device not because of 4K video or the Harry Potter pictures or whatever, but because I have lots of music I like to keep on my phone. If it weren't for that, I could live in 16GB. My current phone is 32GB, and it fits me just fine. And whoever said that kids don't take pictures or video has not met my kids. If I were buying phones for them, they'd be getting the low end unless they ponied up the money for the bump. As it is, they get their parents' hand-me-down's, and they'll like whatever that happens to be. Right, kids? *gives the stern side eye, the kids know better than to say no*
My facts are Apple revenue, profit, profit margin, iPhone unit sales, ect.
They all support that 16GB is not a ripoff product.
Great sense being spoken here. I'm getting the 64gb model and I know it won't be able to hold all the 4K video I'm likely to shoot on it. But why on earth would I keep 4K video on a device with a lower resolution display? That's what my Mac and my iCloud storage are for.
OOoo a copied and pasted response that has nothing to do with what I said.
No I don't want Apple to lower prices, I want them to repel the 16GB model with a 32 GB model given the year is 2015, not 2010.
Demand has nothing to do with anything.
I have some ocean front property in New Mexico I'd like to sell you. Trust me, it's worth it, I'm turning a huge profit selling these things.
you seriously think a normal guy on the street can tell the difference between a 750p display and a 1080p display on a 4.7 inch phone held at normal distance?
I wouldn't say people don't know the difference. But I'd like to think most people who were interested in filming video in 4K at this point in time wouldn't be buying the 16GB model! The base model has always been aimed at the casual users, most casual users don't even know what 4K is yet.
You've lost me now. I didn't say anyone has 64 GB on their base model. Samsung has 32GB though on the S6.
So you want to charge 64GB iPhone users $100 for 32GB this year when they got 48GB last year?
Show me how you would price the lineup:
32 $650
64 $750
128 $850
is that correct?
Yes they do. If the 16GB was such a terrible product people would stop buying them.
That's correct, and it's how every single iPhone has been priced, except for last year when Apple skimped on upgrading the base model storage.
IMO it should be a $50 premium and not $100, but that will never happen.
People buy terrible products. Its as simple as that. I didn't say the 6S was terrible, just that 16GB as the base model is a compete and utter rip off.
So now you are ripping off 64/128 GB customers.
Is that the way you treat your customers? Give the customers who buy the most expensive product the middle finger?
You are charging the 64GB guys $100 for 32GB more. Last year they got 48GB.
You are charging the 128GB guys $200 for 96GB more. Last year they got 112GB.
Really? Thats your plan?
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