“If Apple follows its usual playbook, the company will announce new iPhones — presumably called the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus — early in September, and have them for sale on the third Friday of that month,” David Carnoy writes for CNET. “That’s less than 70 days from now.”
“Leaked images on 9to5Mac purporting to show the new iPhone’s logic board reveal a new Toshiba flash memory module that, according the site, has 16GB capacit,” Carnoy writes. “The site notes that a ‘last-minute upgrade to a higher capacity would not be unprecedented,’ but — to me — a step up to a 32GB baseline feels like a longshot. And that’s the problem.”
“The fact is 16GB of storage space just doesn’t cut it anymore,” Carnoy writes. “Once you shoot a bunch of pictures and videos, download a couple of graphically intensive games and a bulky app or two (Google Maps) and store some music on your phone, you start to hit the limit… It could be argued that there’s ‘no good reason’ to buy the entry-level 16GB iPhone. And yet people do. They just can’t resist buying the cheapest of anything, even if it isn’t in their best interest…”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote on July 4th:
Obviously, 16GB is for a certain target market, one that can live in the iCloud. The problem with that model, however, is that inexperienced buyers and inattentive resellers foist 16GB iPhones on people who really cannot manage to live in the iCloud and therefore could end up hating their iPhone (it won’t update, it’s perpetually packed full and therefore runs poorly, can’t take any photos, can’t download day more apps, etcetera).
Apple needs to ask themselves if the benefits of having a 16GB iPhone (“low” entry price and upselling platform for higher capacity iPhones) are worth the risk of disappointing those who are likely buying their first iPhone. For Apple, the quality of the user experience should always come first.
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