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Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8
An anonymous reader notes that Apple is being sued over claims that iOS 8 uses too much storage space on the company's devices.
"Ever wonder why there never is enough space on your iPhone or iPad? A lawsuit filed this week against Apple Inc. alleges that upgrades to the iOS 8 operating system are to blame, and that the company has misled customers about it. In the legal complaint filed in California, Miami residents Paul Orshan and Christopher Endara accuse Apple of "storage capacity misrepresentations and omissions" relating to Apple's 8 GB and 16GB iPhones, iPads and iPods. Orshan has two iPhone 5 and two iPads while Endara had purchased an iPhone 6. They contend the upgrades to the operating system end up taking up as much as 23 percent of the storage space on their devices."
They do. It's part of that 16GB that they advertise. This is how pretty much all devices are advertised. Do laptops and desktops come with a separate disk for the OS? When they advertise the size of the hard drive do they subtract the size of the OS? How about other brands of phones or tablets?
Laptops generally have a lot more memory than 16 or 32GB, so it's not an issue. When it becomes an issue, as with mobile devices, this should be compensated with more memory to dedicate to OS.
PC / laptop vs. mobile devices? Apples and oranges.
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Why TF don't Apple have a slot for microSD card ike most smartphones these days.
Anyway I gave up on Apple in 1988
Usually this type of decision is based on a couple of things, and all of them really such with MicroSD:
(1) Power management; with the card it, it's hard/impossible to drive down battery usage/drive up battery life
(2) It's another hole in the case to let in water/dirt/etc.
(3) Speed/quality of MicroSD cards is highly variable
(4) As hardware which talks directly to the driver, not through an intermediary, and effectively on the memory bus, it's an attack vector
(5) They're easy to lose, compared to, say, a power brick or a laptop, where you should be crossloading your media in the first place
(6) It's easy to make a mistake on insertion and damage the slot (this is the same reason it's so hard to insert/remove the SIMs)
(7) Electrical damage, should someone put a metal object, such as a screwdriver or paperclip in the slot (including possible battery fire)
And the biggie:
(8) If people want an Android device, then they should buy an Android device instead
Worse, it adds significant complexity to have to different physical sets of storage.
And it also means that they would need to get an over-sized OS storage volume just to have room for future features, meaning that you'd have wasted/unused storage in your device, driving up the cost and power consumption, getting nothing in return until some hypothetical future date when the OS might grow to use that space. And if there's no such wasted space now, that means that the OS new features are constrained to fit into the current storage, so the OS won't have features that it could otherwise have.
It's really much better for users to have one storage device, with the OS and user data sharing it, so that you can use 100% of the storage for whatever mix of OS and user data you happen to have.
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