Yeah, no.
Posted on 09/14/2015 5:28:54 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Pre-orders for the new Apple iPhones began today and if history is any guide, millions of first-time buyers—trusting Apple not to sell them a lemon—will opt for the least expensive model, the one that comes with 16 gigabytes of storage.
But a 16-gigabyte iPhone 6S is a lemon—a $649 smartphone that will almost certainly run out storage before its contract runs out.
“Don’t buy a 16GB iPhone!” warns Gizmodo’s Kate Knibbs, calling it “the hand job” of iPhones—a product that works but does not satisfy.
The official explanation for not killing the 16GB model, offered by its senior VP of marketing Phil Schiller in June, is that it makes a superior smartphone more affordable for more people. As services move to the cloud, he says, price-conscious consumers may not need “gobs of storage.”
But the new phones do need gobs of storage. An estimate 4GB or 5GB just for the operating system. 1.5GB for a 200-song playlist. 75 megabytes for Angry Birds. 275MB for Monument Valley. 300MB for each minute of 4K video.
How much would it cost Apple to bump 16GB to 32GB? At today’s prices, according to IHS, roughly $6.72 per smartphone.
Apple is making a “serious strategic mistake,” argues Vox’s Matthew Yglesias, fattening already fat profit margins at the expense of customer experience.
“Killing the 16GB phone and replacing it with a 32GB model at the low end,” he writes, “would obtain things money can’t buy—satisfied customers, positive press coverage, goodwill, a reputation for true commitment to excellence, and a demonstrated focus on the long term.”
Yeah, no.
Lol
LOL...whippersnapper!
I remember playing about $1000 for 4 MB of RAM...and my external hard drive was 20 MB!
Which was better than floppies!
No, I’ve got no problems with the phone itself.
As I said, SPRINT.
Many people do fine with just 12GBs of available storage. Enterprise companies who buy iPhones are quite happy with that level of storage because the apps they put on their locked-down, company issued phones are very limited.
No, mini-SD cards would be a security risk for every Enterprise company that allows bring your own device. The presence of such cards makes theft of business secrets is too easy with a card. That is one of the reasons that Google Android has dropped support for SD cards on Android phones. Such cards were keeping Android out of Enterprise acceptance.
Apple wants the extra 50-70$ (I don't really know) that it gets for the 32gb model which also is a step up in other ways
There IS no 32GB iPhone 6s model. The next step up is the iPhone 64GB, so your argument is null and void.
IHS is using the cost estimates for an SD card memory. . . but it is not the far faster speed memory used for SSD drive memory which is what Apple uses for the logic board storage inside iPhones. That memory is far more expensive. Check what the pricing is on that before you start damning their price factors for fast memory that is mapped to the logic board, and is not required to be swapped in and out like external storage like the slow SD card memory is. Now, make it very small form factor, and check that price.
Yeah, they do. . . but the memory is slow and treated as second class external storage memory. There's even one with an SD Card slot I believe.
Well, that could be a definite problem.
You’re right
No question
I have the fat boy
So even more of a rip off by the Cupertino gangstas. Now I know why some normally obedient fanbots are up in arms
Apple has sold every single iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus they can manufacture. So again you are popping up with falsehoods, Dennis. What you are seeing are the same FUDsters as usual trying to stem the rising tides with cofferdams of words. They aren't succeeding. If they don't want to buy the 16GB iPhone 6s, for the same money they can buy the 64GB iPhone 6. . . and have the space they want.
Even worse in Mexico, because Sprint move away from their Telcel partnership and hooked up with Movistar. My phone didn’t work for two days on my last trip.
It works now but the sound quality is terrible, and I conduct conferences across the US, Mexico and China. Ugh.
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