Other By mid 2030s the iPhone SE will have a base 1TB storage

[Adarna]

Base storage of the iPhone roughly doubles in size every 4-5 years.

By mid 2030s the $399 iPhone SE base storage would be 1TB.

So I am thinking that the other storage sizes of this iPhone SE would be 2TB, 4TB and possibly 8TB.

Amazing how life would be with the cheapest iPhone having so much storage.

Would the process node used by 2036 be a fraction of 1nm?

 

[Fred Zed]

Base storage of the iPhone roughly doubles in size every 4-5 years.

By mid 2030s the $399 iPhone SE base storage would be 1TB.

So I am thinking that the other storage sizes of this iPhone SE would be 2TB, 4TB and possibly 8TB.

Amazing how life would be with the cheapest iPhone having so much storage.

Would the process node used by 2036 be a fraction of 1nm?

Doubt it. We’ll probably have another method of storage by then.

 

[ericwn]

Will we see an iPhone with 64GB memory in 1-2 decades time?

Or a base storage iPhone with 1TB?

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Will you now post a new speculation thread for each and every component of the devices?

Will we then have 8G networks? Bluetooth 9? Wifi 11?

 

[eyoungren]

Amazing how life would be with the cheapest iPhone having so much storage.

You are not taking into account how people use storage.

In 1995 I bought a 1GB hard drive for my 486. I got it because I wanted it, but in 1995 a 1GB hard drive was the high end of capacity and most people didn't have that.

Today, a 1TB hard drive isn't saying much. In a few years 1TB storage on a smartphone also won't be saying much.

And you're all excited for 1TB of base storage in some far off year - with 2, 4 and possibly 8TB being the high end. Yeah, you are not factoring in what people do with their devices.

 

[ericwn]

You are not taking into account how people use storage.

In 1995 I bought a 1GB hard drive for my 486. I got it because I wanted it, but in 1995 a 1GB hard drive was the high end of capacity and most people didn't have that.

Today, a 1TB hard drive isn't saying much. In a few years 1TB storage on a smartphone also won't be saying much.

And you're all excited for 1TB of base storage in some far off year - with 2, 4 and possibly 8TB being the high end. Yeah, you are not factoring in what people do with their devices.

Mark these words!

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Base storage of the iPhone roughly doubles in size every 4-5 years.

By mid 2030s the $399 iPhone SE base storage would be 1TB.

So I am thinking that the other storage sizes of this iPhone SE would be 2TB, 4TB and possibly 8TB.

Amazing how life would be with the cheapest iPhone having so much storage.

Would the process node used by 2036 be a fraction of 1nm?

By then iOS will be 950gb of system space so it won't be much different than 64gb's now

 

[Fred Zed]

You are not taking into account how people use storage.

In 1995 I bought a 1GB hard drive for my 486. I got it because I wanted it, but in 1995 a 1GB hard drive was the high end of capacity and most people didn't have that.

Today, a 1TB hard drive isn't saying much. In a few years 1TB storage on a smartphone also won't be saying much.

And you're all excited for 1TB of base storage in some far off year - with 2, 4 and possibly 8TB being the high end. Yeah, you are not factoring in what people do with their devices.

You were more cutting edge than I. Had a 386 wait for it DX not SX 25. 😂 the dawn of pc gaming was awesome. I think it has 4MB ram and 80 meg hdd.

 

[eyoungren]

You were more cutting edge than I. Had a 386 wait for it DX not SX 25. 😂 the dawn of pc gaming was awesome. I think it has 4MB ram and 80 meg hdd.

Yeah, my AMEX bill that month told me just how cutting edge that drive was.

My Packard Bell only had one drive slot and a single plug IDE cable. I had to swap in a cable and leave the drive loose in the case.

 

[ericwn]

Yeah, my AMEX bill that month told me just how cutting edge that drive was.

My Packard Bell only had one drive slot and a single plug IDE cable. I had to swap in a cable and leave the drive loose in the case.

I remember these times well! And often enough you’ll have an expert sales person on the other side of the counter with lines like “you’ll never fill up that much storage!”

 

[Fred Zed]

Yeah, my AMEX bill that month told me just how cutting edge that drive was.

My Packard Bell only had one drive slot and a single plug IDE cable. I had to swap in a cable and leave the drive loose in the case.

Oh yeah the Amex card. At the time it was my dads. Lol. Full tower unit, sound blaster sound card was also new at the time and exceeded Adlib sound cards. I was at the Trocadero London for the launch of Wing Commander. Game came with a CD loaded with tracks from the game all utilizing the sound blaster card.

 

[ericwn]

Oh yeah the Amex card. At the time it was my dads. Lol. Full tower unit, sound blaster sound card was also new at the time and exceeded Adlib sound cards. I was at the Trocadero London for the launch of Wing Commander. Game came with a CD loaded with tracks from the game all utilizing the sound blaster card.

Loved Wing Commander and later on Privateer.

 

[Fred Zed]

Loved Wing Commander and later on Privateer.

They were the best.

 

[akash.nu]

Those were the days boys. 8MB RAM felt like having a super computer. I’ve even had games that needed to be loaded from a 5.25” floppy disk.

 

[azhava]

I'm still trying to figure out how life would be so much more amazing with 1TB of storage on my phone. I don't even use all 256 GB I currently have. Filling my phone's storage up with a bunch of stuff I don't need or use wouldn't add much amazingness to my life.

 

[squawk7000]

A different view may be that in 20 years we won't have any data stored locally on your device, and it will all be somewhere over the air in whatever the successor to the cloud is. You rent as much space as is needed, and use it cross platform.

Network speeds and coverage are improving all the time, and the various bottlenecks eliminated, so it's anyone's guess.

 

[azhava]

Assuming we're still using similar storage media in 15 years, it's quite possible that the base storage for an iPhone could be 1TB. My first computer in 1989 had an 8086 processor, 640K of RAM, and a 10MB hard drive. I thought that hard drive was huge and never even came close to filling it up. 15 years later, a 10MB hard drive wouldn't even have held the operating system. A lot changes in 15 years.