16GB phones are for enterprise users who read emails from online servers and don't need tons of capacity. Enterprises need the secure environment Apple offers, not phones where employees can store GBs of non work related pics, music, apps.
Moreover, 16GB phones can be a solution for those who use Apple Music and iCloud Photo Library (as well as iCloud Drive). Net of the fact you need to dish out 120€/year for the first, and another 12€/year at least for the second (50GB tier). Considering the very smart management of the GBs on your phone in those 2 cases (especially for pics), having a 128GB iPhone doesn't really bring anything.
Unless you manage to fill your phone with high res videos or thousands of pics per day, before your reach a Wifi connection.
So if you get the 16GB on a plan, you can get essentially a 50GB iPhone with 12€/year (on top of what you pay for the device a month).
If you download hundreds of apps you don't use, are afraid to run out of memory with pics you never sync to a mac/win machine, if you take a lot of high res videos for work (why are you not using a professional device in any case), or fill your phone with thousands of selfies for Instagram and Facebook, and thousands of songs you will never manage to hear in a week, then go ahead with the 64GB or 128GB and stop saying that Apple is capitalizing on your (supposedly) odd behaviors. Or maybe you want to play a lot of games that require a lot of space in any case. I wonder if app thinning will require again so many GB on phone at all times in any case.
I bought a 64GB iPhone 6 because I was worried about the resale value (was planning to get a 6s). I now realize that I will keep it till the 7S comes out and I could have saved the money and rely on the Cloud completely for pics, and saved the 100€ to buy music or books. I am not using Apple Music in any case, because it destroys iTunes libraries, their artwork, and cannot even match iTunes' own songs.
with google photos and streaming audio and video now a days i dont need more than 16 gigs. i still have 9 gigs free after installing apps i use.
I'd agree, that is exactly why ever more RAM hasn't actually been needed in the very recent past. That said, a 4K video camera is a new problem. I guess if you are not into video the lower end iPhone is fine especially as a buddy or spare phone as we have, we always get one high end and one lower end.
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16GB phones are for enterprise users who read emails from online servers and don't need tons of capacity. Enterprises need the secure environment Apple offers, not phones where employees can store GBs of non work related pics, music, apps.
Moreover, 16GB phones can be a solution for those who use Apple Music and iCloud Photo Library (as well as iCloud Drive). Net of the fact you need to dish out 120€/year for the first, and another 12€/year at least for the second (50GB tier). Considering the very smart management of the GBs on your phone in those 2 cases (especially for pics), having a 128GB iPhone doesn't really bring anything.
Unless you manage to fill your phone with high res videos or thousands of pics per day, before your reach a Wifi connection.
So if you get the 16GB on a plan, you can get essentially a 50GB iPhone with 12€/year (on top of what you pay for the device a month).
If you download hundreds of apps you don't use, are afraid to run out of memory with pics you never sync to a mac/win machine, if you take a lot of high res videos for work (why are you not using a professional device in any case), or fill your phone with thousands of selfies for Instagram and Facebook, and thousands of songs you will never manage to hear in a week, then go ahead with the 64GB or 128GB and stop saying that Apple is capitalizing on your (supposedly) odd behaviors. Or maybe you want to play a lot of games that require a lot of space in any case. I wonder if app thinning will require again so many GB on phone at all times in any case.
I bought a 64GB iPhone 6 because I was worried about the resale value (was planning to get a 6s). I now realize that I will keep it till the 7S comes out and I could have saved the money and rely on the Cloud completely for pics, and saved the 100€ to buy music or books. I am not using Apple Music in any case, because it destroys iTunes libraries, their artwork, and cannot even match iTunes' own songs.
I'd agree, that is exactly why ever more RAM hasn't actually been needed in the very recent past. That said, a 4K video camera is a new problem. I guess if you are not into video the lower end iPhone is fine especially as a buddy or spare phone as we have, we always get one high end and one lower end.