“Apple is reportedly dropping the 16GB option for iPhones when the ‘iPhone 6s’ is released this September, according to sources with Made In China Gadget (MICGadget),” Amit Chowdhry reports for Forbes. “The base ‘iPhone 6s’ model will start at 32GB of internal storage. MICGadget’s unnamed sources — who work for Apple’s Taiwan-based manufacturing partner Foxconn — said that the packaging for the ‘iPhone 6s’ and ‘iPhone 6s Plus’ do not have stickers that say ’16GB.'”
“This is not the first time that Apple was rumored to be dropping the 16GB storage capacity option for the ‘iPhone 6s.’ Last month, The Korea Times reported that Apple is negotiating a higher capacity memory deal with Samsung for the ‘iPhone 6s’ and ‘iPhone 6s Plus’ smartphones,” Chowdhry reports. “Another rumor suggests that Apple may actually keep 16GB storage as an option, but it seems likely that the smaller storage option will be for a device called the ‘iPhone 6c.’ The specifications of the ‘iPhone 6c’ is believed to include an A7 processor and a 4-inch display. The ‘iPhone 6c’ will be announced this September or Q1 of 2016.”
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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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