“On Wednesday, Apple’s stock fell 1.9%, after it was revealed that a class action lawsuit was filed against Apple, alleging the company misled consumers about the amount of usable storage capacity its devices have, and failed to sufficiently disclose that the free iOS 8 would affect the amount of usable storage on its devices,” Forward Looking Guru writes for Seeking Aplha.
“It is a bit ironic this lawsuit is being filed against Apple, since the amount of usable storage on a 16GB iPhone, approximately 13GB, is significantly higher than most, if not all of Apple’s competitors’ 16GB smartphones. Samsung’s 16GB Galaxy S5, by comparison, only has 10.7 GB of usable storage,” FLG writes. “The following chart gives you an idea of how the amount of usable storage on an iPhone compares to Apple’s competitors.”
“Furthermore, according to data from Microsoft’s website, the Surface Tablet, a device Microsoft is heavily advertising, uses an operating system that takes up almost 30 GB, nearly 40% of the “usable storage” on the 64GB model of the device, significantly below the 57GB of usable storage on the 64GB iPad,” FLG writes. “Investors should not pay much attention to any lawsuits alleging Apple acted in “bad faith” when advertising the storage capacity of its devices. Although it’s possible Apple will be found to have not adequately disclosed the storage capacity of its devices, I am convinced this will not be a strong negative for Apple, since Apple, at worst, would be guilty of not providing full disclosure in big bold letters on its packaging about how updates to the operating system affect storage capacity. Apple’s website clearly states the usable storage capacity of Apple devices after being formatted will be less than the stated capacity.”
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“Google’s sloppy Android OS turned back the technology clock on mobile devices, reintroducing many of the mistakes Microsoft had made in the 1990s. That’s why Android is a unmitigated security disaster and why Android devices waste so much storage, even if nobody is actually suing any of those who profited from those bad decisions,” Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider. “However, it’s not just Google that had attempted to keep the world’s users stuck in the storage bloated, insecure world of poorly thought out PC engineering. Microsoft’s response to the iPad, launched in 2012 under the Surface brand, similarly shoehorned bloated 1990s PC ideas into an iPad-like form factor.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote last Wednesday:
From Apple’s iPhone webpage, verbatim: “Actual formatted capacity less.”
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “mpias3785” and “Carl H.” for the heads up.]
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