re: Apple's Phil Schiller tries to justify the iPhone's puny 16GB starting storage

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Yeah, and people are pissed at them (a business) for making a business move. I think it's crazy. "They're just doing it to be greedy!" UHHH, yeah, the whole point of a business is to make money.

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I've never understood this backwards dumbass mentality. It's a business move that hurts customers, so of course customers are going to be pissed about it. Do you get happy when people do things that hurt you and benefit them? Or do you get pissed?

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These same people crying out are shelling out the extra $100 and are still excited (and probably smug) about having an iPhone.

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Yeah, I have an iPhone and I love it. But I hate the storage situation. Are you saying that people are hypocritical if they don't love everything or hate everything about the products they buy? There's no middle ground whatsoever? I can't like my phone but be critical of some aspects of it?

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Also think about all how many of these 16 GB phones are sold (to older people) and half of the storage is never used.

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Yeah, I thought the same way when I helped my mother buy an iPhone. She had never used a computer in her entire life, not once, ever. Guess what? She filled most of that shite up with photos after a few months taking pictures of the grandchildren and her dog. So we decided to get her the iCloud photo storage. But we couldn't even fricking do that because there wasn't enough space on the phone to apply the latest update that enabled the iCloud photo storage feature.

I used to justify the iPhone's lack of external SD storage because the phone has WiFi and internet access and that pretty much gets you unlimited storage. And I still prefer not to have external SD storage to this day. But 16gb is fricking bullshite now. A few downloaded apps and a few saved pictures and you're screwed. When it would have costed Apple next to nothing to make 32gb the base storage when they bumped all the other tiers.