iPhone drive size
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Thickness schmickness... Jesus, people.. Majority of qbn users work in advertising and have problem understanding the only single reason is to sell more and more?
It's not their business to give you more for less, sooner. They'll upgrade the phone in half a year (right after everybody got one clearing their stocks for X-mas) and we'll buy it again, memory production cost hardly being relevant.
It's the way it works. I remember Canon D30, the 3.3MP dslr launched in 2000. It was a semi-pro camera that cost something like $3500, but its autofocus was slower than it was in the cheapest Canon film slr cameras of that time (I did my tests to be sure). Most people believed there was a different technology needed for dslr, hence the slow speed. The truth was, Canon had all the AF technology it ever needed by then, with eye-tracking control and whatnot. It just needed to sell us a new, better camera every next season.
It's all about the upgrade path. They just need to build their stuff imperfect in order to leave room for future updates.
They have to do it this way. They cannot give us the best technology they have, because we wouldn't need to buy their next big thing later on and this would put them out of business. We'd have no iPhone then.
It sounds acceptable when it's vanity technology like iPods. But the strategy isn't limited to fun electronics, we have to assume ie. pharmaceutical companies work by the same principle. In other words, it is in their best business to keep us sick and if anybody believes they're not doing just this please step out.