Other Rumor-Mill: Lack of 1TB option for iPhone

[NightWingz]

Anyone else love huge local storage like me?

I always seem to want “one tier above” what Apple offers.

Recent rumors have only point to a 512GB model as the maximum capacity.

Wish there was a 1TB option from the rumor mill...

 

[Khaleesi Kendall]

Honestly while I know it would benefit many I don’t see it being worthwhile for them to mass produce

the storage really should
Be 128, 257 and 512

 

[jschnee21]

Sorry, did you post a screen shot? What’s taking up all of your storage?

Since I started using Google Photo and Amazon photo to offload and delete all my pics and vids, I rarely need that much storage any more.

And I have 650+ apps install — most of which I could delete if needed.

 

[jschnee21]

 

[akash.nu]

Erm seems to work just fine with my 64GB won’t complain if the base model is 128GB though.

 

[NightWingz]

Sorry, did you post a screen shot? What’s taking up all of your storage?

Since I started using Google Photo and Amazon photo to offload and delete all my pics and vids, I rarely need that much storage any more.

I didn’t post a screenshot.

Most of my space are taken up by VLC and Photos. I just love to have my files on local storage so there are minimal buffers/loading, and quality is maximum.

I hope Apple gives us a 1TB option - especially with the superior camera hardware we have now.

For eg, i went to a concert and shot some highlights of the concert. With 4K 60FPS enabled, the highlights came up to about 60GB for a short night event... 1TB will really be useful for scenarios like these (so that one does not have to clear storage space beforehand and can shoot impromptu and not have to worry about storage constraints)...

 

[Shirasaki]

I always store stuff locally as much as possible, since I cannot trust any cloud storage provider to “safeguard” my personal data. For me cloud storage is for accessing a small collection of files anywhere anytime, not a FileVault or something similar. Your data, your responsibility.

 

[NightWingz]

Honestly while I know it would benefit many I don’t see it being worthwhile for them to mass produce

the storage really should
Be 128, 257 and 512

I was hoping to see 2TB on the iPad Pro (with the minimal updates they did) so there is hope for a 1TB iPhone lol...
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I always store stuff locally as much as possible, since I cannot trust any cloud storage provider to “safeguard” my personal data. For me cloud storage is for accessing a small collection of files anywhere anytime, not a FileVault or something similar. Your data, your responsibility.

I agree with your statement in bold.

Cloud storage is more useful to access or share smaller collection of files for collaborative purposes.

Large high-quality files is a time-chore and huge bandwidth hog to load onto device when access is required.

 

[compwiz1202]

I always store stuff locally as much as possible, since I cannot trust any cloud storage provider to “safeguard” my personal data. For me cloud storage is for accessing a small collection of files anywhere anytime, not a FileVault or something similar. Your data, your responsibility.

And should never have only one copy. At least two; three is even better. And they should be in different locations. If it's important enough, one should be paper in a fireproof container.

 

[Jimmy James]

I like having lots of offline data. I don’t want to stream my shows, music, and pictures. Not at all. That said I manage nicely with 128 GB. If I went on a longer trip I’d want more but that’s the only scenario.

 

[rui no onna]

And should never have only one copy. At least two; three is even better. And they should be in different locations. If it's important enough, one should be paper in a fireproof container.

Yep. For the photo library, my iPhone and iPad are two of my local copies (with the benefit of being with me everywhere). Got another copy on NAS (plus a direct attached backup USB3 HDD). iCloud serves as my offsite backup.

For documents and stuff, it's on desktop, laptop, NAS and Dropbox.

 

[jschnee21]

Yup. One copy on Google Cloud and one copy on Amazon cloud. That’s more redundant /better than my Fortune 500 (#37) employer.

Nearly all Enterprise storage AND compute is in the cloud these days, guys. My small lab alone generates 8-10TB per week which we upload in pseudo real time for analysis (EMR) and archival.

 

[44267547]

1 TB is a ridiculous amount of storage, it’s really unnecessary for the consumer market. Plus, Apples price point would be so high, I really do think it would be unattainable for the majority of consumers. It probably be for like the select 1% that would actually ever need that much storage on an iPhone.

Speaking of storage, I can barely consume 64 GB.

 

[ksec]

Are you going to buy that even if it is $1599 For a iPhone 12 Pro Max 1TB ?

But that is actually an interesting thought that make sense from a cost and pricing perspective. I have been thinking Apple's BOM cost increase in iPhone 12, and so far all information indicate they are not raising price at all.

So it will be

iPhone 12 Pro Max

$1099 128GB
$1199. 256GB
$1399. 512GB
$1599 1TB

As you can see the 256GB is going to be cheaper than iPhone 11 Pro Max ( Currently $1249 ) . Which means on the whole iPhone 12 is going to be cheaper than iPhone 11, and that doesn't make sense when you consider Apple is paying more for 5G patents, 5G Modem and mmWave Antenna.

1TB Pricing could theoretically smooth out all these cost. As 1TB margin is far greater than the rest of the line up.

Interesting if this is true.

Edit: If you are going to use iPhone as a Pro, shooting in RAW images, 1TB barely holds anything. So in terms of usage there is definitely a market for it. For consumer it wouldn't make much sense.

 

[now i see it]

Jumping from 512GB to a TB is a HUGE increase. It's not like going from 64GB to 128, or 128 to 256 etc.

 

[ucfgrad93]

1 TB is a ridiculous amount of storage, it’s really unnecessary for the consumer market. Plus, Apples price point would be so high, I really do think it would be unattainable for the majority of consumers. It probably be for like the select 1% that would actually ever need that much storage on an iPhone.

Speaking of storage, I can barely consume 64 GB.

Agreed. I believe that it is definitely a niche product.

 

[filmbuff]

Maybe just rethink your file management?

1 TB is a ridiculous amount of storage, it’s really unnecessary for the consumer market. Plus, Apples price point would be so high, I really do think it would be unattainable for the majority of consumers. It probably be for like the select 1% that would actually ever need that much storage on an iPhone.

Speaking of storage, I can barely consume 64 GB.

And then if they did offer 1TB of storage for some ridiculous price, every single youtube reviewer would get the 1TB model then spend the entire video complaining how "Apple's new $3000 smartphone" is too expensive. You know, like how the 16" Macbook Pro is a $7500 laptop.