iPhone drive size
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- CyBrain
It took me a while for this to dawn on me, but the iPod Touch has a 32 GB drive. Why can't the iPhone use that size? They're both flash drive, right?
- ismith0
Probably has a little to do with battery consumption and the thickness of the device while accommodating cell technology.
- CyBrain0
The thickness looks about the same to me:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/gall…
- There is a big difference when you hold them together.Jnr_Madison
- we're talking about depth.Jnr_Madison
- or maybe the 3g one is thinner? I haven't held one of them yet, obviously.Jnr_Madison
- I don't like the plastic back of the 3G. Hopefully when I touch it I'll like it, but for now it's just disappointing.ismith
- 3G is half a millimetre thicker apparently.forcetwelve
- airey0
isn't the new iphone coming out with 2 drive-size options, including the 32GB?
- Nope. Unless they change their mind at the last second...
http://www.wireless.…ismith
- Nope. Unless they change their mind at the last second...
- jevad0
8GB and 16GB. No 32GB.
- Peter0
>They're both flash drive, right?
Yup and yup. Doesn't make sense other than from a marketing perspective.
- rafalski0
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.
- GORADIO0
it gets even worse when it comes to mobile phones - people with yearly upgrade contracts wanting new phones regardless of whether or not the phone they have is actually obsolete or not.
and phones BREAK. a lot. because they don't need to last.
- Peter0
One reason why to buy stuff from less developed countries. Like cars.
Where I work the cars are built to last 10 years. After that, the cost of the parts that starts braking down and the spare/repairs that follows are more or less the same to that off a new car.
It's a waste of money and it is a waste of resourcess.
But it do generate good business.And on the other hand, there are those old fiats or those russian cars that runs on whatever you poor into the tank. Shot of whisky, some kerosen, gasoline, whatever you have lying around...
Oh, I am ranting. I shut up now.
ipod. yah. ja ja ja.
- rafalski0
The only way is up..