The ad says “Lots of storage FOR PHOTOS”, specifically.
If we assume that the typical iPhone photo is 4MB (they’re almost always less), and you use half your storage for photos, ((128/2)*1024)/4 is 16,384 photos.
I’d argue that’s quite a lot.
My photo library is like 300GB (although I suppose I take a significant amount of video). I also have 30GB of downloaded music. 128GB is really not enough.
I’d argue your counting is flawed. That storage is used for OS, updated applications, caching, system data, videos, music you listen to, etc. When you buy 128GB you never get more than 100, and it only keeps getting smaller the more you use it. And iPhone’s default video FPS is 60. See how many of those can fit on that storage.
It is a lot. I have now 48/64 GB storage used on my iPhone from 2020. Photos/apps are also offloaded to iCloud to save local storage, the system automatically helps you. I sat down once to delete big unused videos or multiple photos, but other than that I don’t actively manage it
The storage space on the phones themselves is not really a problem.
The default storage for iCloud is borderline criminal and should be targeted for regulation by the government.
The true problem is how hard to move your data out, or to able to choose your own cloud service
To be fair, the 5gig is free, and you can still back up your phone via a windows or Mac computer.
The 5 gigs of storage is really only good enough for things like system and device setting, and keeping preferences unified across devices. It’s not really a great solve for media or file backups. For that you either need to pay Apple, pay another cloud backup company, or backup locally to a computer.
This guy gets it.
Maybe I’m weird, but I feel entitled to significant storage (options) on my device, but I don’t feel entitled to free cloud storage (of significant size)
I really enjoy my Apple devices, but to call 128GB a lot is ridiculous. Storage has absolutely stagnated. It’s 2024, these phones should be coming with 256 or 512GB for the insane price they cost. iPhones shoot 4K60 HDR video now, that space is hardly enough. Good for getting you onto an iCloud plan, though.
They even disable recording in prores on lower storage phones.
Uh, I still find that lots
I don’t think it is when cheap thumb drives are well above this and the phones are north of $1k.
The solid state storage in your average iPhone or high end android phone is a LITTLE BIT different from a shitty thumbdrive
Not really. Slightly faster? Sure. Hundreds of dollars faster? Absolutely not. You can get fast thumb drives for only a slight premium over the cheapest ones, which aren’t even that slow these days. They’re all solid state storage, dunno why you made that distinction.
A cheap off-brand SATA SSD is infinitely better than any USB flash drive. Storage in phones is insanely better than standard SATA SSDs. What are you even talking about?!
Right? My Pixel is also 128GB. I’ve got like 5 or 6 thousand Spotify songs, 3 gigs in my pocket casts cache, about 10 gigs of emulated games and dozens of apps and games. If you’re struggling with 128 gigs on your phone, clean some shit off there. I’ve still got 30 gigs free.
If only there was some kind of expandable storage slot that I could add a terabyte for like 50 bucks. One u just pop in and pop out that’s like the size of a fingernail…Maybe we’ll make some kind of technology like that one day. I’m sure the good folks at Apple aren’t just scamming every fart smelling consumer by telling them the storage they pay extra for is reasonably priced.
Well, they don’t want to because fans will gladly pay 200$ or more for extra 128GB and call them revolutionary.
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
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’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.
It’s plenty for me.
My Android device has 128GB of internal storage, and I still could not imagine not having a MicroSD slot for additional storage.
i have never had issues with storage on my ios devices.
I mean, it is lots of storage. Not anywhere close to what you should get for that price, but lots nonetheless.
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
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).
