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I agree. Some people would be silly to buy anything less than the 512 GB model while others a perfectly fine with 64 GB. Maybe they don’t shoot a lot of 4K videos, I don’t know but it’s their phone and how they use. They shouldn't be told they’re using their phone in improperly so therefore they have to buy more storage. I really dislike the elitist attitude from some people.
The problem is you don’t understand basic economics. You remind me of these people demanding free healthcare thinking that the money is just gonna be printed so they can spend it. If Apple spend extra money on one part that you have to raise the price of the phone or cut something else in the phone. If I need a phone with 64 GB I shouldn’t be forced to buy a phone at a higher price with 128 GB or a phone that’s been cut in some way. Someone suggested removing the charger or putting a cheaper charger since they already have fast chargers. This is not acceptable. If I need a phone with 64 GB I shouldn’t have to pay for 128 GB.
It doesn’t matter if you have more storage you’re still going to need more than the basic iCloud storage plan if you want a back up. Either way I don’t think anyone is arguing discontinuing or disallowing people to buy higher storage options. They definitely need to keep higher storage options available for people that need it. The discussion is removing the lower storage option as a choice. You can still buy your 256 or 512 GB model.No one is trying to tell you you’re not allowed to buy this. What I'm saying is you shouldn't tell others that they’re not allowed to buy a model with less storage.
The synchronization is nice but my biggest thing is having a back up. It’s not the best back up as in you should have another back up as well but if I drop my phone in the road and it gets ran over or it just decides to stop working I will still have all my pictures and whatever other settings on the replacement phone
The 128 GB model doesn't "cost more at the expense of the 64 GB model". I’m not sure how your logic goes with that one. That's like saying because car dealers sell base model cars that makes the fully loaded models more expensive LMAO
It’s always smart to have a back up with your devices. I thought about getting time machine but never got around to doing it. I think most people with iPhones use iCloud as their sole back up. It’s not the best situation but it’s better than no back up. If you back up with iTunes doesn’t that turn off cloud back up or you could do both? The last time I used iTunes to back up my iPhone was an iPhone 5.
I agree with that. So many people are complaining that the newer iPhones are more expensive. Part of that was poor marketing by Apple with coming up with the new iPhone X as a replacement for the iPhone 7. They should’ve came out with the iPhone XR not call it XR But but just the iPhone like it is now. Then later on come out with the pro or Max whatever they want to call it as a alternate phone that’s upgraded rather than the replacement for the seven. It made it look like the XR was a downgrade from the seven and the X was the replacement
Please cite your source for this is not a typical case. Every friend I know that has an iPhone X or even older iPhones has 64 GB or less. It seems like you’re making up stuff to justify your opinion that people should not be allowed to buy reduce storage. This is just an elitist attitude that doesn’t make sense. Just because someone has the same phone you have with less storage doesn’t devalue your phone. Perhaps you feel you can’t show off your phone to your friends because they might think it's the cheaper one with only 64 GB but that sounds like a problem you have. Perhaps Apple needs to make a special color for the 512 GB model so the elitist people that feel they're better that other people with a cheap 64 GB model can show it off
It's still cheaper to get the base model and add 50gb of iCloud of if you need a little extra. Keeping your iPhone for 5 years would equal a total of $60 in iCloud vs paying an upfront $150 to get to 256gb.
Not really because the iPhone XR did not come out till after the iPhone X. Your choices were the iPhone 8 which felt like an iPhone 7 with a new number and the iPhone X that was significantly more expensive. There was this big outcry that the phone was almost $1000. People felt that they couldn’t upgrade to the eight because it wasn’t really an upgrade unless you had an iPhone 6 in the X was just too expensive. I think a lot of people who bought the X even though it was much more expensive than they wanted to pay would’ve preferred a Phone like the XR. Of course now we know the tiers a little better especially since Apple has dropped the XR name and just called it iPhone.
I have the 256 GB model and pay for iCloud storage just for peace of mind knowing that if I break my phone or I should say when I break my phone I won’t lose my data.
I’m not disagreeing that what you’re saying is wrong but I’m saying some people didn’t think of it that way. I had friends that thought the iPhone XR was a downgrade from the iPhone 8. Apple should’ve done a better job marketing the XR and it should’ve came out at the same time as the iPhone X that way when the new iPhone came out people had a choice to upgrade to the new system without paying $1000. Either way both the iPhone X and iPhone XR sold like hotcakes so Apple did a good job marketing them to sell but they could’ve done better at squishing some of the negativity.
