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

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

adammull said:
People still have local music? Um ok.



I actually think you have that backwards. The only people I know who have local music are 50+. Everyone else I know has Pandora, Spotfiy Premium, Rdio, or Beats. I'm 34 btw. Why would I carry music around? If I need music for a flight I download and go.



Why would I watch ANY content besides Youtube videos on my tiny phone screen? I have an iPad right with me at all times unless I'm out and about. And if I'm out I wouldn't be watching content anyway. I'd be living my life.



I have plenty of apps and I use my phone exhaustively. I usually wear my phone flat out and usually upgrade annually.



I take quite a bit of pictures and video of kids or vacations or whatever and I edit all that and make movies on the iPad. I have a 32 gig iPad. When that gets full which doesn't happen really I offload to the iMac for permanent storage.



I guess I could carry thousands of pictures around on my phone but why? How many people making your argument already have an iPad AND computer? It's utterly redundant.



But again that's just me and I'm comfortable with my decision. I don't understand why you storage gurus are not. If it's ok for you to be you why is it not ok for me to be me? Everything is in the cloud now. We're not going towards more storage. We're going towards fancy terminals with permanent access to the cloud.



Just be you. It's ok. But I don't need more than 16 gigs. So I appreciate the option to buy that size. I can afford any iPhone I want but only need 16 gigs. I'm being financially responsible. Shouldn't that be applauded? Why does everyone on Mac rumors think they're the only person In the world?
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I can't stream music off the cloud on a NYC subway which I take daily. So I'm willing to risk being a 50+ person for the ability to enjoy my music on my commute. There's also notorious network congestion at certain times of the day in midtown Manhattan which is getting better but I wouldn't rely on it for streaming just yet. Just because you only use YouTube doesn't mean everyone only uses YouTube. You ask why does everyone on here think they are the only person in the world yet you write as if you're the only person in the world and decided that only the old people out there use local storage. Local storage for some things lessens data consumption and if you're capped, that's helpful. And congrats on not needing more than 16 gigs and being "financially responsible." Maybe the OP can start giving out medals to all of you.
 
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I've been struggling to keep my iPhone 5 under 16 gigs for the past two years and here is what has taken up all my storage

Apps: Tons and tons of apps. Games take up a lot of storage
Photos: As it is already, I keep much fewer photos than I would like
Audiobooks and podcast: I listen to these constantly and so I always have them loaded up
Upgrades: iOS 8 took, what like 5 gigs? Yeah good luck with that.

That's all I do. No music, no videos, and 16 gigs is definitely not enough.
 
Surf Monkey said:
There's some reason to be snotty about it? He has a valid point. If it's his own original music he won't want it up on Apple's servers. Same goes with photos. I make my living as a photographer. A lot of my images are copywriten. Trusting them to cloud services is a problem, especially if you read the TOS for these services. Not to mention the fact that many of my client images are nudes. Those aren't going on anyone's cloud. Period.

In other words, let's not be so quick to dismiss. There are lots of absolutely valid reasons why one might not want to trust a cloud service with files.
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Pretty much.

I don't want photos of my friends uploaded anywhere. As we all know, even if you delete, they remain. Celebgate just proved this a month ago. Furthermore, all the online profiles each company are creating and selling as data to marketers, ummm, no thanks.

I also have my own work (music) on my phone to review as I produce music and play professionally. But that isn't the main reason. If data was truly unlimited, OK, but it's capped, even on my unlimited plan. If I hit 5gb, then it gets slow and I have to call my carrier. That is time I don't want to waste on hold.

I just like having my tracks with me and I can pick and choose what I want to listen to, and none of it consumes data. It's why they don't sell iPods with 500mb of storage. I think the iPod and Ipod shuffle are 16gb minimum these days and they aren't a phone.
 
adammull said:
People still have local music? Um ok.

I actually think you have that backwards. The only people I know who have local music are 50+. Everyone else I know has Pandora, Spotfiy Premium, Rdio, or Beats. I'm 34 btw. Why would I carry music around? If I need music for a flight I download and go.

Why would I watch ANY content besides Youtube videos on my tiny phone screen? I have an iPad right with me at all times unless I'm out and about. And if I'm out I wouldn't be watching content anyway. I'd be living my life.

I have plenty of apps and I use my phone exhaustively. I usually wear my phone flat out and usually upgrade annually.

I take quite a bit of pictures and video of kids or vacations or whatever and I edit all that and make movies on the iPad. I have a 32 gig iPad. When that gets full which doesn't happen really I offload to the iMac for permanent storage.

I guess I could carry thousands of pictures around on my phone but why? How many people making your argument already have an iPad AND computer? It's utterly redundant.

But again that's just me and I'm comfortable with my decision. I don't understand why you storage gurus are not. If it's ok for you to be you why is it not ok for me to be me? Everything is in the cloud now. We're not going towards more storage. We're going towards fancy terminals with permanent access to the cloud.

Just be you. It's ok. But I don't need more than 16 gigs. So I appreciate the option to buy that size. I can afford any iPhone I want but only need 16 gigs. I'm being financially responsible. Shouldn't that be applauded? Why does everyone on Mac rumors think they're the only person In the world?
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I'm only a few years older and I like my music on my iPhone. I don't want to stream music because that just eats up data (and there isn't data everywhere). I also don't want constantly change my playlists because of how often my music taste changes. I'll want Country while going to work then play some Trash Metal or even some '50's jazz on the way home. I like that I don't have to worry about how much video I am taking while on a vacation and have to waste data putting it in Dropbox/Onedrive.

I am also financially responsible and live within my means while saving for retirement. You don't want people knocking you for using 16GB, but yet you knock the people who want music on their iPhone, or just want more storage because of games, movies, or whatever. I can easily ask you why do you need a 32GB iPad when I can use a 16GB iPad with no issues? Why do you need it when I don't? It works both ways. I only got a 64GB because they dropped the 32GB. $100 for 4 times the storage, I think that's a great deal to me, and a LOT cheaper then going to the next tier for a data plan per month. That's how I am being "financially responsible" also. I gotten to the point that whatever makes a person happy.
 
I no longer have the energy to keep up this futile discussion....I'm done, you all win, you beat me into submission... I'm using my phone all wrong.

I'm going to buy a 128gb iPhone now.

Peace.

:apple:
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
I've been struggling to keep my iPhone 5 under 16 gigs for the past two years and here is what has taken up all my storage

Apps: Tons and tons of apps. Games take up a lot of storage
Photos: As it is already, I keep much fewer photos than I would like
Audiobooks and podcast: I listen to these constantly and so I always have them loaded up
Upgrades: iOS 8 took, what like 5 gigs? Yeah good luck with that.

That's all I do. No music, no videos, and 16 gigs is definitely not enough.
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iOS was only temporary. It's like 1.5 gigs after install.
 
People who can get away with a 16 GB iPhone should just be happy. There is good stock of those versions in many Apple Stores compared to the 64 and 128 GB versions. Either Apple is producing way more of them (unlikely) or they are not as popular as the larger ones, so they are much easier to come by.

I'd consider a 32 GB iPhone 6 if it were produced but since it isn't I'm going to go with the 64 GB version. I don't want to be constantly managing my storage, adding and deleting things. Data plans are also very expensive here in Canada, so the marginal cost of getting 4 x as much storage is worth it to me.
 
Can never have too much storage. I've got tons of great music (sequenced playlists - streaming is not the end all for music lovers), movies, pod-casts, loads of great apps, photos and videos on mine (128GB) and still have 52GB free. That will hold me over until the iPhone 7.
 
I have 40GB of photos going back as far as 2008 that iPhoto somehow fit on my 64GB iPhone using only 12GB of space.

I've got 25GB of music (2400 songs) sync currently. I'm working on various playlists for another 10-15GB worth of music. I can go more than that if I choose the 128k option in the settings.

I've got 3-4 movies and 2-3 episodes of Boardwalk Empire I try to watch during my lunch breaks.

I've got Podcats, but those get deleted after listening to them.

I've got a few Audible books.
 
motulist said:
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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?
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The 33 GB of music I have on my phone is curated from my much larger, complete collection. If I relied on streaming solutions solely (iTunes Match, 'show all music', etc), I'd have to weed through a bunch of stuff I'm not interested in listening to on a regular basis to find what I want. Yuck. Additionally, my iTunes account is the one that's used for all our family's purchases, which means my wife's purchases, my kids, etc, are all in there. I don't want to have to sort through all that stuff as well. This also applies to video media.

Same thing with photos. My photo library goes back well over a decade. I don't want to have to weed through all that stuff to get to the ones I want to revisit, show off, etc.

So, for me, the convenience of having curated subsets of my data with me, as well as the immediacy of having it there regardless of the status of the surrounding networks or cell towers, is easily worth the little bit of extra money it takes to have a device with ample storage.
 
gazzrenn said:
I no longer have the energy to keep up this futile discussion....I'm done, you all win, you beat me into submission... I'm using my phone all wrong.

I'm going to buy a 128gb iPhone now.

Peace.

:apple:
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lol, be as sarcastic as you want, but that 13 GB isn't going to be enough.

and absolutely do not believe you have PLENTY of apps and use your iPhone like an average person without constantly managing storage, using up data, and draining battery (like you said downloading from iCloud and iTunes and dropbox right?)

its pretty damn ironic, how you say "i have unlimited data" and then you say "you guys think you need storage, that means everybody does"

i have an unlimited plan that was grandfathered, to get an unlimited plan in the US without signing up for a crap carrier (sprint) is nonexistent.

almost everywhere in the world, people never had the taste of that luxury.


do you not know history? OS, as in operating system, like iOS, Mac OS, Windows. take more storage space, ram as they grow.

thats why games these days take 10+ GB of storage to what? 100mb? 500MB? 1GB? before?

and it only grows more because technology advances that much quicker.


of course ur forced into submission regardless if your sarcastic, you have no argument at all and the fact that you immensely contradicted yourself.


i apologize, but when someone is so close minded and wrong, i have to make my point.
 
Mad Mac Maniac said:
Doesn't matter. The point is that you still have to free up that amount of space to install it. That is freaking annoying. The only alternative is downloading through iTunes, which feels positively barbaric at this point.
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Seems like your the cause of your own stress. That's not Apple's fault. Get a higher capacity model. This is a non-issue.
 
Recording video, taking photos. That stuff adds up. You don't want to be on vacation shooting video or pictures and run out of space.
 
It's funny that some people are saying "you can't have a 16gb iPhone, I have 64gb so you need that too!" I've always had 16gb iPhones and of course if I felt that I had to have 64gb I would pay the extra $100 but I opted to not pay the extra. I don't carry my thousands of photos with me and I don't carry my entire iTunes music library with me either.
 
Sparkeze said:
It's funny that some people are saying "you can't have a 16gb iPhone, I have 64gb so you need that too!" I've always had 16gb iPhones and of course if I felt that I had to have 64gb I would pay the extra $100 but I opted to not pay the extra. I don't carry my thousands of photos with me and I don't carry my entire iTunes music library with me either.
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So whats your point?, you are smarter and than someone that does?
 
Sparkeze said:
It's funny that some people are saying "you can't have a 16gb iPhone, I have 64gb so you need that too!" I've always had 16gb iPhones and of course if I felt that I had to have 64gb I would pay the extra $100 but I opted to not pay the extra. I don't carry my thousands of photos with me and I don't carry my entire iTunes music library with me either.
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iOS is getting larger though. With absolutely nothing installed, my 64GB iPhone 6 has 3GB less available space than my 64GB iPhone 4S. As apps get updated for the new resolutions, they're going to get larger too.
 
Thread should just have been titled "I only need a 16gb iPhone." In which case, it wouldn't be a thread, it would be a tweet. Because no matter what capacity you post, there will always be LOTS of people who need/want more, or less, and if everyone listed all the reasons they need capacity X, Y, or Z, this would be a very crowded, boring site very quickly.
 
Sparkeze said:
No, my point is that no one is smarter than anyone else when it comes to their personal iPhone storage preference.
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that wasn't the topic of this thread, this topic was what do you do with more than 16GB of storage.


and the point is, MOST people cant use just 16GB of storage because of the OS thats getting bigger, the Apps are getting more complex, larger and have more features.

if you dont have music on your one, thats great. but thats essentially (besides being a smartphone) what it was built for, an iPod and Phone in one.

even if you have only 100 or 200 songs, you times that by roughly around 3-5 MB thats easily half a GB on your 12-13 GB of storage space (OS takes the other 3-4 GB)

face book's app and data takes around a half Gig alone. the fact is 16GB are going to be obsolete simply for the fact that it isn't enough to keep up with technology.


thats like saying "I'm fine with 1 GB of storage space in my desktop, with 256 MB of ram"

so what are 16GB users going to when they drop that model? the fact is your going to love that storage space.

if you have to manage, you need more space.
 
ltb7 said:
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!
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$25 a year to hold 25,000 songs or an extra $200 every two years for about 20,000 songs worth of physical storage. Cloud storage is cheaper and offers more space so it's effective as long as your data plan is good. I do see your point though. Different strokes, as they say.
 
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