What do people do with more than 16 GB of storage space?

[ZBoater]

I've never understood why people choose phones, even ones with displays as large as the 6+, to watch extensive amounts of movies and TV on.

Yeah, yeah, I know... "I travel, I'm on a train 2 hours a day, etc." but I'd figure that an iPad mini or another small tablet would be a lot better for a take anywhere media device.

It's more of a convenience thing. Sometimes I don't have my iPad with me, which I would choose over the iPhone. I just want to kill a couple of hours at a waiting room or the bench at the mall waiting for the wife. You are right, the iPad is better suited, but the iPhone 6+ is shaping up like a pretty nice Plan B device.

 

[TroyBoy30]

I fill it up, what else would I do with. Why would I want to stream content I can have locally on my device? Save data and never have to worry about no reception

 

[sunking101]

Store more porn.

 

[Surf Monkey]

So have what? have a 1000 different songs available when you're in this "spotty" place or "highly congested city". You can only listen to so much music before you end up somewhere you have wifi or a good data connection.

The only private data you could possibly not want to store with services like Dropbox are photos and videos which are private, but should generally be backed up on a hard drive anyway. Because you know if you lose the phone by any chance... you'll lose all of your photos.

Music, you don't need to save anywhere... Spotify does this for you.
TV-Shows/Movies, you don't need to save anywhere
Netflix, Hulu, Moviebox do this for you. You can pre download a few and put them on your device just in case... but there's no reason to put everything on it.. 0 none whatsoever. It's just using storage for the sake of having storage. Meaning you're spending money, just because you have money. A waste is what I am saying.

You, sir, have not the first clue what you're on about.

First of all, I don't know in advance what music I may want to listen to when I'm out of range of the network and I don't know how long I'll be without connectivity. It may be a few minutes or it may be hours or days.

Second, as a professional photographer I work with copywriten images so privacy is only one of my concerns when it comes to photographs.

Third, if you think any streaming service like Spotify has a comprehensive library of music then you either have very limited taste or you're fooling yourself.

Finally, it might serve you well going forward in life to be a bit less presumptuous and keep in mind the fact that you are not everyone. Attempting to universalized your own experiences and opinions is never a good idea.

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

Store more porn.

Damn you beat me to it.

More HD too.

 

[kevink2]

PLEASE READ THE EDIT TO MY ORIGINAL COMMENT!!!

A lot of you seem to have missed my follow up replies where I clarified my question, so I edited my original post so that you can't miss it. Please, no more comments saying "I have 8 zillion GB of movies stored on my phone."

Why do you even need a smartphone? You can text/talk with a dumb phone. An iPod Touch or iPad mini for web access.

The main reason is to not worry about storage. You aren't always in a good coverage area, and redownloading things or streaming music eats up data caps for when you are in an area with coverage.

I keep my photo library on my iPad, so much easier than showing on a computer. Or carrying printed photos.

 

[Glene]

You, sir, have not the first clue what you're on about.

First of all, I don't know in advance what music I may want to listen to when I'm out of range of the network and I don't know how long I'll be without connectivity. It may be a few minutes or it may be hours or days.

Second, as a professional photographer I work with copywriten images so privacy is only one of my concerns when it comes to photographs.

Third, if you think any streaming service like Spotify has a comprehensive library of music then you either have very limited taste or you're fooling yourself.

Finally, it might serve you well going forward in life to be a bit less presumptuous and keep in mind the fact that you are not everyone. Attempting to universalized your own experiences and opinions is never a good idea.

Very well said....i can go thru 32 gig easy with about 35 keynote presnations, 6000 songs and 20- 30 vids i need for work. Throw in a few movies for plane flights and i'm way over 32 gb.....so happy theymade a 64 GB unit.

 

[ziggo]

---EDIT--------------
I'm very well aware of how much space you CAN fill up by loading your phone with 50,000 songs, or 10,000 high res photos, or several seasons worth of tv episodes, etc. The question is why do you store all that stuff locally on your device instead of just having a few of those items stored locally for the rare occasions when you don't have net access to stream them? Even out in the country where I am, pretty much everyone has DSL with wifi, and in town you even get some cell data. So for the vast majority of the population you're going to have net connectivity that's at least as good as that, and usually much better.

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I've had a 16 GB iPad for 3 years and a 16 GB iPhone for a year, and I've almost never had a problem of too little available space. I have many many apps installed, including a couple of big games, I keep about 10 music albums and a few podcasts stored for those rare occasion when I don't have cell or wifi net access available, each week I take about 30 pictures and a couple of short videos, I'm running iOS 8 which supposedly eats up over 1 GB more than 7, I only sync with my computer to offload the pics and videos every couple of months, and even with all of that I still have like 4 GB of space free. What are other people storing that eats up so much more space that it requires 32 or 64 GB of space?

Why? The simple answer would be because I can....

 

[Taco1933]

I've alread used 16 gb on my 64gb, and I just got it. I keep several hundred songs on Spotify locally so I'm not constantly streaming unnecessarily. That's 2.7gb alone. The standard preloaded apps are huge memory hogs. That's another few gigs. Obviously I have other apps as well. If I had 16gb, I'd have to be constantly erasing stuff. I could make it work, but I don't want to. It's unlikely I'll ever have to erase anything from my 64gb, unless I pack it full of movies before an international flight or something.

 

[Shockwave78]

I have about 40-45gb of music i put on my 64gb for the last few years. I have never had an issue with running low on the 64gb. But for only a $100 to upgrade to 128gb? Its a no-brainer for that and the resale value.


I will probably get up to about 90gb used this time around though.

 

[Serelus]

You, sir, have not the first clue what you're on about.

First of all, I don't know in advance what music I may want to listen to when I'm out of range of the network and I don't know how long I'll be without connectivity. It may be a few minutes or it may be hours or days.

This is not only weird, is doesn't actually refute the suggestion about having a 1000 songs on your device. Your taste is music isn't diverse and unique enough that you can't mix things up in the span of a 1000 songs.

Second, as a professional photographer I work with copywriten images so privacy is only one of my concerns when it comes to photographs.

Again local storage.... what are you refuting here, no point to put those on your phone.

Third, if you think any streaming service like Spotify has a comprehensive library of music then you either have very limited taste or you're fooling yourself.

I don't even know what to say to this, Spotify offers over 20 million songs. Are you the kind of guy that listens to just mix tapes, or bands that have gigs in bars. What eargasming profound music are you listening to?

Finally, it might serve you well going forward in life to be a bit less presumptuous and keep in mind the fact that you are not everyone. Attempting to universalized your own experiences and opinions is never a good idea.

It might serve you well to heed what a person is saying rather than coming up with arguments that don't get your point across. But thanks for the advice regardless.

 

[2SwiFt29]

Photos and videos can easily take up most of the room and that's why 16gb is never enough for me. I've always gotten 32gb but I'm glad Apple decided on the same price as 32gb but upgrading it to a 64gb. Add that with apps and music and I'm sure I'll hit 64gb in no time.

 

[Surf Monkey]

This is not only weird, is doesn't actually refute the suggestion about having a 1000 songs on your device. Your taste is music isn't diverse and unique enough that you can't mix things up in the span of a 1000 songs.

1,000 songs is nothing. I have over 125,000 in my library and guess what? Not everyone is listening to mixes of pop songs. Some of us listen to orchestral and jazz and opera and a whole range of other genres too.

Again local storage.... what are you refuting here, no point to put those on your phone.

"Sorry, client I'm here to meet with. Some smart ass on the Internet said I don't need to bring your preview files with me, so I don't have anything to show you."

I don't even know what to say to this, Spotify offers over 20 million songs. Are you the kind of guy that listens to just mix tapes, or bands that have gigs in bars. What eargasming profound music are you listening to?

Thanks for illustrating my point. Clearly your taste runs so close to the mainstream that Spotify works great for you. Congratulations. Unfortunately you are not EVERYONE. In point of fact you don't even need a very eclectic taste in music to exceed the limits of Spotify's library.

It might serve you well to heed what a person is saying rather than coming up with arguments that don't get your point across. But thanks for the advice regardless.

Oh, I got my points across just fine. The fact that you're utterly incapable of grasping that your experiences, tastes and opinions aren't universal is on you, not me.

 

[ZBoater]

I need enough space to download the entire music decade of the 80's onto my iPhone.

Can't fathom not having my entire Air Supply collection with me at ALL times...

 

[Surf Monkey]

I need enough space to download the entire music decade of the 80's onto my iPhone.

Can't fathom not having my entire Air Supply collection with me at ALL times...

I don't understand why EVERYONE doesn't instantly agree with you!

 

[darkside flow]

All the power to people if they want to spend an outrageous amount on extra storage. It's your money not mine.

I opt for $25 per year on iTunes Match to have my entire collection available. In times where there's no data available, I have smart folders synced that show music for the last day, last week and last month added. I generally keep everything from the last month downloaded onto the device.

This way I can load up on pics and then just remove them whenever the phone gets close to full.

Not a big app person. I use my iPad for games if necessary.

 

[ZBoater]

I don't understand why EVERYONE doesn't instantly agree with you!

It's the kids and their weird music tastes these days. Justin Bieber is ripe for streaming.

 

[ELPresidente720]

My first baby in on the way so I expect many, many pictures and videos on my 64 GB.

I doubt I would need more than that any time soon. Even with a multitude of games installed and over 1,000 songs I'm barely halfway there. I could get by with 32 GB and if that'd been an option I would've gone with it. 16 GB would be manageable but inconvenient.

 

[dcorban]

With my 16GB phone, I kept having to put less and less music on. I was down to 6GB of music. I need the music stored locally for use in the car and when travelling on transit. 6GB is not quite enough variety for me.

I also had a situation where I ran out of space while at an amusement park taking photos and video. I had to delete all my music on the spot to make space.

I also sync a few albums from iPhoto on my Mac, but otherwise, I don't have much else on there.

Ironically, I need much less space on my 32GB iPad. I bought the 32 thinking I would keep a lot of comic books and magazines stored on it, but I read them all and haven't added more. Since I don't sync much music to it, it uses far less space than my iPhone.

I now have the 64GB phone and it's great. I am able to sync as much music as I like from my collection, and sync even more iPhoto albums. I'm only using about half the space, which means that this size should last for the two years until the next phone. Although, I am taking a LOT more photos and especially video now, due to the awesome camera.

 

[nburwell]

I've had 16GB iPhone's since they were originally introduced. I stream my music via spotify and iTunes Match. I don't store a lot of photos on my phone, or dump them on Dropbox. I also don't store a ton of apps, and at the end of the day, I have 6.6GB available. That being said, I'm probably going to get the 64GB 6 just for the convenience factor.

 

[ltb7]

All the power to people if they want to spend an outrageous amount on extra storage. It's your money not mine.

I opt for $25 per year on iTunes Match to have my entire collection available. In times where there's no data available, I have smart folders synced that show music for the last day, last week and last month added. I generally keep everything from the last month downloaded onto the device.

This way I can load up on pics and then just remove them whenever the phone gets close to full.

Not a big app person. I use my iPad for games if necessary.

you are paying for storage with iTunes match!

if you keep your iPhone for 2 years it would cost only $25 more than match at $50 a year for 4 times the storage on your iPhone, plus the resale on iPhone will be better so it would probaby cover the extra cost

i used to have 16GB, i would be happy to keep it if i could! just not a possibility at least for me!

 

[mademan118]

I used to be in the 16GB iPhone is fine for so long but after ios 8 I realized that I need 64gb and hardly do any photos, have very little music, and not many apps. I couldn't even update the device as I only had 4gb available. My girlfriend? Less than 1gb. I wish apple would have offered the 32 version, but after having the 64 I realize it's perfect. My GF was able to sync the next 10 audio books she had on her computer, and all of her photos (3k+) to her device and still had 16GB to spare.

I want to really do more photo and video taking (live in hawaii) and there is no way I could get away with the 16gb if it I wanted to keep this phone for longer than a year.

And lastly, after the recent iCloud security breach, I don't want to rely on cloud storage for anything.

 

[rui no onna]

Cellular Data overage:
$15 per GB per month

Local Storage:
+16/48GB: $100 (flat rate) or $6.25/2.08 per GB
+48/112GB: $200 (flat rate) or $4.17/1.79 per GB

I think I'll stick to local storage, thanks.

 

[SundayDuffer]

I travel for work all the time. Cant really depend on streaming at each hotel. Therefore i just load these onto the phone.

At the moment these are going to be on the phone when it gets here Wed.

Suits season 4.
Boardwalk Empire season 4.
24 season 9.
SOA season 5&6

6-7 hires movies

8gbs of music

 

[Serelus]

1,000 songs is nothing. I have over 125,000 in my library and guess what? Not everyone is listening to mixes of pop songs. Some of us listen to orchestral and jazz and opera and a whole range of other genres too.

The point is the part of it you're listening to.. you're never going to listen to 125,000 songs at 1 specific point in time. Maybe 50 or 100 at the very least. But you'd need the entire day to finish 500 or a 1000.

"Sorry, client I'm here to meet with. Some smart ass on the Internet said I don't need to bring your preview files with me, so I don't have anything to show you."

What are you talking about? Take it off the drive then? Terrible example.

Thanks for illustrating my point. Clearly your taste runs so close to the mainstream that Spotify works great for you. Congratulations. Unfortunately you are not EVERYONE. In point of fact you don't even need a very eclectic taste in music to exceed the limits of Spotify's library.

Yeah, what's clear is that you've searched a few songs ever in your life on spotify, didn't find them and considered the service void of all the genre's you've mentioned above. Which it is not however, it has all of them, in larger amounts than you could ever listen to. Don't get me wrong not everything is on there. But the assertion you're making with regards to the "mainstream" only portrays you look upon yourself as this individual who only listens to profound and unique music nobody else has access to. Guess what, your music is also part of the mainstream.

Oh, I got my points across just fine. The fact that you're utterly incapable of grasping that your experiences, tastes and opinions aren't universal is on you, not me.

No point came across, all I am reading is "I am unique, logic doesn't apply. And I refuse compromise extremely expensive storage, for the sake of my exquisite taste in music. Enjoy your storage, it may not serve you much longer in the coming years as everything goes into the cloud anyway.