Man whines about not being able to appreciate a beautiful natural vista with his family because he wasn't able to shoot shaky, amateur video of it. Jaysus, it's like if you can't point a phone at it, it didn't happen. If the moment was missed it was because he missed it, not because of the phone.While out on a hike, my wife grabbed her iPhone to capture me and my kids looking out from the mountain we had just proudly hiked. She was greeted with [a low storage error.] The moment was forever missed.
I got sick of it over a year ago. The pricing on the six was such that I couldn't conscionably pay for it. There's a reason nobody wants the 128GB - it's damn near a thousand dollars. T-mobile offered to sell me one for $59/mo for two years the same day Nissan offered to lease me a Versa for $79/mo for 2 years and something snapped inside. The sad thing is my sister asked me how to get stuff off her phone so she wouldn't lose her photos (it's literally the only place she's documented her 3-year-old). I pointed her at Flickr 'cuz the app is pretty effective. But in order to do that, she had to upgrade iTunes on her computer so that she could update her iOS but to do that she needed to take photos off iCloud so she could upload different ones so she could have enough room for the new OS so she could download the Flickr app. I'm pretty sure she still hasn't done it and she's got a master's degree.
Yeah, we are in a storage trap atm and haven't put the time in that it will take to get everything working again. I have zero music on my iPhone. I reluctantly take pictures when my wife asks me, and I cannot update to iOS 9.0.1 due to limited storage. My wife's Macbook is full, so we need to do a shuffle before Siri can expand like a goldfish on my phone.
Tellin' you, dude. Ever since Marissa Mayer has decided that fucking up Tumblr is more fun than fucking up Flickr, Flickr's been approaching functionality again. Unlimited storage, nothing's public until you make it, they'll take RAW and it's automagical. That's my Level 2 backup. My Level 1 backup has Dropbox auto-upload everything to the cloud, and then Lightroom watches those Dropbox folders. Fire up Dropbox, it auto-imports and auto-deletes everything in the folders so it's a quick'n'easy transfer. Not only that, but you can auto-tag a bunch of stuff. Then the good stuff gets uploaded to Flickr (department of redundancy department - there's a reason not everything the app grabs is public) and everything gets Rsync'd to the NAS.
I am halfway through an hours-long download of the 9.0.1 firmware. I am also low on storage despite blanking my music library, don't want to pay more for iCloud space, and haven't been able to update over-the-air. I am hoping that this guide will do the trick (no jailbreak, downloads are hosted on apple.com, what could go wrong?): http://www.redmondpie.com/ios-9-beta-download-release-date-features-and-rumors-update/ In the past I have recovered significant space with a backup, factory reset and restore, though it is a chore and an act of faith. Version 9 apparently uses some tricks to save space, but app thinning is broken for now.
Man, I am REALLY hoping that the new Blackberry is half as good as they say it is. Real Keyboard? fuckin' sign me up.
It's interesting how quickly the average person can fill their phone up. Non-SD card used to be a deal breaker for me when buying phones, but now I'm probably just going to have to settle for 32GB at the baseline when looking for a new phone.
It is beyond bizarre. You should what happens when you have three phones on the same account. That's another trap we inadvertently meandered into, and each time they improve their offerings we fall further down the rabbit hole. It tells me that my phone called me, I kid you not. Not the other two phones on our account, but mine.
All this being said - what a pain in the neck. You and kb are spot on. What's the cost to apple for another 16 or 32 GB of storage? Or (GASP) an SD slot? (Blasphemy!) I always end up paying for the bigger storage because 16 is just plain laughable. Especially as their OS continues to bloat out like my waistline.
Yeah, here in NZ I'm on one of the heftiest data allowances for mobile - 5GB a month, free talk and text (Text is huge in NZ, I'm not sure about other countries) here and to Australia. I hear other countries have "unlimited" but throttled data packages?? I used to work for a Telco; and it was fascinating to see how rapidly things progress from being a luxury, to a necessity. Mobile data used to be so clunky, inefficient and annoying that nobody used it. Now it's the thing people come into stores to discuss. Calling and texting is a given to be cheap, Data is the last frontier that Telcos (at least in NZ) can make money off - so I can't see us getting unlimited mobile Data in the near future, until they start to fail in convincing people that access to the internet is becoming a utility rather than a luxury. That and our infrastructure wouldn't cop it in it's current state.
T-mobile will basically let you stream any music for free. Video they'll still punish you, but music appears subsidized by the vendors. I have a 64GB phone and had every plan to load it full of music, but I discovered that I have near-instant access to all 200-plus GB of my library whenever I need it. You get say, Netflix and Hulu in a pissing match and I'll bet you one or both of them ends up subsidizing the data on that, too. At that point it comes down to how many Youtube videos you can watch over LTE.
Damn that's not bad. Currently only Spark in NZ subsidizes data for music streaming, but they just pay your Spotify subscription for you. So we have a ways to go, but hopefully things will change in time. Netflix is only just taking off over here but it's definitely happening. The small time competition companies just in our country are at least making people aware of the services they could be having.
I suspect things will improve - not fast enough, and not with enough quality, but they'll improve. Cell phone contracts are pretty much pure margin; they're amortizing the build-out so it's not like they're getting free money but that amortization can be pushed out if it justifies more customers. Market forces in the US have made cell plans a lot less rapacious. I remember when plans came with different numbers of texts per month. Nowadays it's nearly impossible to buy a plan without free MMS.