“Today we want to say goodbye to the 16GB iPhone,” Chan Zhuang reports for M.I.C. Gadget.
“Some Foxconn insiders confirmed that new iPhone 6s (and we think all ‘future iPhone’ like iPhone 7) will have 32GB and more capacity,” Zhuang reports. “We can’t tell you from what Foxconn’s department we received information, but we can only say that the packaging of the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus don’t have sticker with ’16GB capacity,’ but 32, 64, 128.”
“Some sources like MacRumors and Macworld (and others) confirmed rumors about new iPhone 6c with 16GB,” Zhuang reports. “Bloggers think that only new ‘rumored’ iPhone 6c will have 16GB capacity, but all iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will be started at 32GB to 128GB.”
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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