Back up your phone and restore it, that "other" portion will decrease significantly, I do it every couple months to free up storage
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When is Apple going to kill 16GB?
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And NO ONE is disputing that. Flash costs less. Whooppity doo!
The point the people that actually have thought the issue through are making (instead of the ones talking about how "nice" it would be and why Apple "should" just because costs have come down and it would make them happy) is that Apple has NO reason to do this. They actually have incentive (the 64GB model for example) NOT to do it, to preserve the people who think 16GB isn't enough buying the $299 32GB model.
If you eliminate 16, you eliminate a segment of buyers for 32. They don't just automatically go "ok, since Apple did that I'll spend the same money I thought was nice of them to give me in the first place on MORE memory than I thought I needed in the first place". Nope. They'd just save the $100 and enjoy the 32GB.
Hmm. Why could people spending $100 less be a problem for a FOR-Profit company???
Riddle me that one BATMAN
Don't see that happening for a while, if ever. That's still the most popular storage size and price. At my store, it's almost rare to see anybody ask for anything higher than 16GBs. I mean, it happens but it it's just clear that the 16GB size is the most popular. I mean a lot of people don't care about getting 958mb size apps and games on their phones. Many just want to make calls, iMessage, take a few pics, buy a few songs, download candy crush, and tweet.
Then what's the point of ITunes and Beats Music, etc etc.
Apple always wants to upsell. The iPhone is just to upsell you on other things.
The more storage you have the more you can put on the phone.
It is a rip off to pay so much for 16GB when you can't expand the storage.
You're ignoring the tens of thousands of people who left iPhone because they wanted expandable storage.
Not even the cheapest Android expects you to do with 16gb and no micro SD card. Only Apple still does that.
As usual, they're ripping people off.
You're also wrong saying "take a few pics" . That is what everyone wants. Take pictures with their phones. Your average user takes thousands of pictures with the phone.
If someone is in the market for a 32Gb had the option of a 64 or 128Gb model, they'd likely buy one of those. The current 32Gb is for people who lack the budget for the 64Gb model but need more than 16Gb.
So far as cost is concerned, Apple could split the difference between the current 16 and 32Gb models and charge more for the phone in general. A larger screen, twice the standard storage would be an incentive. They could still keep one 16Gb iPhone 5S as the budget phone too.
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Well they eliminated the 8GB option from their flagships, no reason why they couldn't eventually do the same with 16GB.
Even casual users will start to run out of space on the device, especially if they are the type to keep their phones for a while, do minimal backups and not invest in extra iCloud storage.
Even casual users will start to run out of space on the device, especially if they are the type to keep their phones for a while, do minimal backups and not invest in extra iCloud storage.
I don't think it would be a wise idea for Apple to increase the price on the phone just by including things other manufactures already have without a price increase. The HTC M7 for example had a higher resolution, larger screen with a standard for 32gb storage.
Apples prices may become a focal point if they increased them. Then a lot of people would start comparing price more then they already do and start questioning. Lower res screen, still smaller size screen, no NFC, no stereo speakers, relatively small battery, , no wireless charging, no dual antennas for CDMA carriers or SVDO, half the RAM, etc etc all for MORE money. Probably something Apple doesn't need to do.
I don't know about "a lot" of people; clearly some people. Whether some is 3 or 1,000,000 nobody knows.
I know for me; wireless charging, NFC, screen resolution, stereo speakers and the "smallish battery" along with no dual CDMA antennas are features I don't really care about. Those that care about those features will leave the iphone anyway. I don't see the iphone 6 having any of these...but we could be surprised.
I was thinking that it's about time last year...
But seriously, it's been the low-end option for 5 years and still the difference between 16 to 32GB is $100?
I don't think they're not going to do that, the 5c sells at that price point right now.
When is Apple going to kill 16GB?
SV-DO will fall the wayside once VoLTE becomes common. Not having SV-DO or dual radios for EV-DO and LTE, is an inconvenience only for CDMA 2000 users in mostly the US. SV-DO isn't that common in the US, anyway. Any iPhone back to the 3G can get an NFC case and enjoy benefits of NFC. There are plenty of long existing NFC apps in the App Store. Just something to whine about. If it's that big a deal, I agree those users will leave anyway.
SV-DO will fall the wayside once VoLTE becomes common. Not having SV-DO or dual radios for EV-DO and LTE, is an inconvenience only for CDMA 2000 users in mostly the US. SV-DO isn't that common in the US, anyway. Any iPhone back to the 3G can get an NFC case and enjoy benefits of NFC. There are plenty of long existing NFC apps in the App Store. Just something to whine about. If it's that big a deal, I agree those users will leave anyway.
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It's not a ripoff if that's all you need (and even less). I mean it might be overpriced, sure, but that's the market pricing essentially. But it's not a rip off in the sense that it's only 16 GB and doesn't have expansion capabilities (as various flagship Android devices seem to not have these days either).
The HTC One M8 comes with a micro SD expansion port, as does the Samsung S5, the Samsung Note 3, the Sony Xperia Z3, and the LG G3. Other Android phones which don't have an SD expansion slot, such as the Google Nexus, offer 32GB models *dirt cheap*. So every single top of the line Android flagship either has a Micro SD expansion slot, or 32GB as standard/dirt cheap upgrade.
Nobody is expecting Apple to lower the price of the iPhone and in fact the i6 is expected to cost more. They should, however, reduce the cost of storage upgrades - or - make 32GB the base model.
The point was those things are more expensive for the manufacturer to include in a phone then not. So charging more for a device that has less regardless of whether you'll use them or not would make anyone that has half a brain question overall value. There comes a time when even the biggest Apple fan will start to question what they are getting vs pure profit (what they are paying for and not getting).
This was all based around the idea (albeit fictional) of Apple raising the base price of an iPhone that I was quoting.