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That clips makes it look repetitive & boring. The opponents don’t react to being attacked & it’s just a matter of tapping furiously. A game that requires no skill is as fun as a treadmill. If the game like that didn’t use a popular franchise in its name, I doubt it would get any coverage at all.

crowley said:

Plenty of headroom on my 128, I imagine you'd need to be an HD video fanatic to come close to filling 256.

Not necessarily. After a few hours of HD video and photos (~10GB), adding a few thousand tracks at lossless audio fidelity (~60GB) & a good collection of 500MB–2GB games (~35GB) fills up 128GB easily. My iPad Air 128GB without everything I could load that’s not video takes up most of the room (7.8GB free).

I might not load as much video on my iPhone, but my iPod classic has over 150GB of music compressed to 256AAC on it. I’d like to place my entire music collection (ripped from CD & purchased lossless) on a small form factor device, but that would be over 750GB.

I realize I’m not a typical user, but there are a decent number of us out there.

I don’t know anyone with a 16GB iPhone that uses it beyond the basics that doesn’t have to manage space by deleting things all the time. I tell people: buy the 32GB model if you are going to use it for more than just stock apps. Those deciding to ignore that advice to save a bit of cash always regret it, and complain about having to pick and chose apps or music or pictures. It’s time Apple ditch the 16GB models since iOS and its bundled apps use up about half the space on the devices. They probably should have done this when they released the 6 and kept the same price points, especially considering NAND memory is now <$25 per 64GB for consumer flash memory cards. At large volumes, Apple probably saves less than $10 using 16GB instead of 32GB NAND.

But Apple has no real impetus to push the envelope as long as all their competitors are struggling to keep up with iOS device performance, timely upgrades & device compatibility. To me it’s a squandered opportunity, but while it might be “money saving,” Apple really doesn’t need to save money more than they need to lead in minimum storage capacity.

antonpablo said:

In a tech industry that is lightning fast moving and highly competitive.. Good luck with that 3 year cycle Apple.. Hope you survive it.

I think you misread the article. New models will be released yearly, but major outer design changes will be carried out once every 3 years rather than once every 2 years, as Apple’s current iPhone practice. This will also mean Apple will most likely expand their naming scheme to N, Ns & possibly Nse, if the 5se is any indication. Since a “generation” of CPUs is 18 months, then Apple’s switch could be meant coincide with more apparent technology improvements, and thus avoid the curse of the “it looks the same & isn’t much faster than the previous #s’. It also means that the “se” models might be on par with the next gen “s” models. This would give Apple a 3 phone lineup that were differentiated between cutting edge, new look and cutting edge & new look, and deflate arguments about the lack of options beyond Flash memory & color that critics use to deride Apple Hardware.

If their routers had a full set of features and were any better than other strategies, I might buy them. But without traffic shaping features other consumer routers have it’s little more than an expensive system designed for people without anything more than the very most basic needs.