Maybe I'm in the minority, but I treat my phone like an old school digital camera. I routinely use Image Capture to export my photos/videos to my computer and/or external HDD. I've got a 256GB phone, but I'm never using more than 1/5 of its storage space at any given time
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I used to do that that, but having everything automatically accessible and indexed in the cloud is so damn handy.
It used to be a lot for me, until I did entire backups with Swift Backup in my device too (cloud was my main).
My Android device has 128GB of internal storage, and I still could not imagine not having a MicroSD slot for additional storage.
I mean, it is lots of storage. Not anywhere close to what you should get for that price, but lots nonetheless.
My 4-5 year old OnePlus 8T phone has 256GB storage.... Are you fucking kidding me, Apple? Can you at least try?
OnePlus had 128gb as their base config until the 12 was released a few months ago. The specs for the OP 7 through 11 all had a base 128gb config.
A lot of phone manufacturers still have 128 as the base config (like Google). That said, they don’t charge $1000 for that base config. They’re usually $150 to $200 cheaper.
Yeah, but if this is apple, and today, then well... It's actually on par for apple, pay twice the amount of money for twice lower specs, lower quality, harder (near impossible) to repair, it just looks nice and shiny, is all.
That said, my main point was that their storage configs are pretty inline with the rest of the industry. Hardware prices are inflated, but that's been true for Apple since the 80's.
I’m only using 92 GB, and am not careful about storage other than deleting pictures I don’t want. I don’t mind them starting at 128 GB.
That said, as cheap as memory is, going to 1 TB should not cost hundreds.
Especially since other flagship phones are $150 to $200 less with that storage option.
I don't have an iPhone but I just wanted to say that 128 is not enough, at least for me.
I had to delete so much stuff.
On my iPhone it's more like:
- 5GB downloaded podcasts
- 4GB offline maps
- 2GB photos
- 2GB music
- 1GB health data
- 1GB messages
- The core operating system uses about 10GB
- About 10GB of or so of other stuff.
In total, I'm using a bit over 30GB.
I had to delete so much stuff.
The thing is, an iPhone does that for you.
My full photo library is huge — terabytes, and i have a bunch of large apps (especially games) on my phone that I never play - it automatically removes them but leaves the icon in the launcher. It'll simply re-download them if you do tap the game. And if the game is well designed, it won't be a single download - it'll be a minimal download for the game then within the game each level or area of the game will be downloaded separately as you play.
I have a 64GB phone, and the storage management makes sure I have 20GB or more of free plenty space for large video recordings, software updates, etc etc. If I had a 2TB iPhone, I'd probably have the same 20GB or so of free space since my photo library is that big.
I guess it would be nice to be able to look at a photo I took six years ago and not have to wait a tenth of a second for it to download. But I'm not willing to pay for that. Even if more storage cost 10 bucks, I wouldn't be willing to pay.
We've finally reached a point where I have more storage than I need on my devices. But I pay way too much for it. Apple needs to stop embarrassing themselves with storage and RAM on entry model devices.
For some. If you start to record video, that SSD gets eaten up real quick.
128gb is plenty unless you’re storing a lot of photos on device. If you’re storing > 100GB of photos on your phone and they’re not backed up somewhere else, you’re really setting yourself up for disaster
It's those moving pictures that really get you. And our phones now have very high grade cameras on them, so it's very easy to exceed. Cloud storage fills quickly, or butchers the resolution.
Cloud storage fills quickly
Apple provides up to six terabytes of cloud storage (for a monthly fee, obviously). And if you have a family account, individual members of the family can pay for even more storage (by default though, the entire family has a shared pool of storage).
But yeah — I'm pretty sure Apple ProRes RAW video can be hundreds of gigabytes per minute of footage. If you're choosing that then yeah, you're going to have to find another cloud provider. And it's going to be very expensive. Most people don't shoot video in ProRes RAW though.
At a glance, that looks like $30/mo. Or $160/year, which they're hoping you never cancel because it becomes a huge task to download and purge before you can cancel your plan.
Or we could do something silly, like have a modern amount of internal storage and a microsd slot, so we can store lots of pictures and videos, and transfer them off the device quickly and easily.
Storage is cheap. Don't let these pricing models fool you otherwise.
I use the iCloud Photo Library, and seems worthwhile to me, though my photo library isn’t huge and has lots of stupid work pics. Frees up my phone storage, still have access anywhere I’ve got internet access. Big thing to me though is backups, iCloud is my really essential data, e-mails, contacts, family photos. That gets automatically synced up to iCloud, back down to my iMac, and that iMac gets backed up to my UnRaid server and a Time Capsule. So without any input from me, all my photos get backed up independently, with redundancy and versioning as well as to the cloud. That’s a pretty neat system to me.
My 13 Mini is 128gb. I’ve had it a year and it still has 20gb of free storage.
128gb would suck ass in a MacBook, but in a phone it’s fine for most users.
i have never had issues with storage on my ios devices.
If only there was some kind of expandable storage slot that I could add a terabyte for like 50 bucks. One u just pop in and pop out that's like the size of a fingernail..Maybe we'll make some kind of technology like that one day. I'm sure the good folks at Apple aren't just scamming every fart smelling consumer by telling them the storage they pay extra for is reasonably priced.
I know you're being facetious but not gonna lie, the progression from a 5.25" 1.2MB floppy to a modern micro SD card with a practically infinitely bigger amount of storage is one of the things that blows my mind most about how much technology has evolved
And to think the physical bits on that floppy still would've been invisible to the naked human eye.
Well, they don't want to because fans will gladly pay 200$ or more for extra 128GB and call them revolutionary.
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