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SanDisk Made an iPhone Case With Built-In Storage (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader writes: SanDisk has made its iXpand Memory Case to alleviate the problem that Apple creates when they release an iPhone in 2016 with only 16GB of on-board storage. The iXpand Memory Case is an iPhone case with flash storage built directly into the case itself that connects/charges via the Lightning port. You won't need a new phone and you won't need to carry around an extra charging dongle, which is the case for many other third-party cases and accessories. Since Apple doesn't make expanding your storage with third-party devices easy, you will need to download/install the companion SanDisk iXpand Memory Case app on your iPhone, which will automatically back-up your camera roll and password-protect your photos and files. If you need some extra juice, you can spend an extra $40 to receive a 1900mAh battery pack that attaches to the case. The iXpand Memory Case is only available with the iPhone 6 and 6s and is available with 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB of extra flash storage for $59, $99, and $129, respectively. Oh, and of course there are varying color options: Red, Grey, Sky and Mint. Maybe your phone battery is running low (God-forbid it is dead) and you just so happen to be nearby a KFC in Delhi or Mumbai, KFC has you covered. They have introduced a meal box that doubles as a smartphone charger.
Apple sets its price points based on flash storage amount. If people can easily add more storage, that will be a win for the consumer. Yay, competition!
iPhone case with flash storage built directly into the case...
Or I can buy a phone with an SD card slot built directly into the phone
You won't need a new phone and you won't need to carry around an extra charging dongle...
No I won't will I?
Since Apple doesn't make expanding your storage with third-party devices easy...
Other phone manufacturers do however, so I'll just buy one of their products.
Selling 128GB flash drives for $20 more than 32GB flash drives isn't nearly as profitable as selling 128GB flash drive cases for $70 more than 32GB flash drive cases.
Worse, it's not even an advert for a new and exciting product. I mean, it might be a new SanDisk case, but there have been similar implementations available for /years/ (right to offering options with an without extra battery). Some of them use the lightning port (IIRC, some of these devices even pre-dated Lightning and used the 30-pin port) and others used WiFi, but the idea is not new.
At least if you are going to spam us with slashvertisements, make it for interesting new products. This is the equivalent of a breathless announcement about how Honda is manufacturing some sort of car. It's not news, it's not interesting; it's just product placement. It's the sort of thing I expected from Dice; I was hoping Slashdot's new overlords would be a bit less weaselly (or at least would be more subtle about it :)
Ooh. Fifty gigabytes. That will almost hold the contents of my phone. Once. Or the contents of one of my DSLR's flash cards.
Only hipsters think the cloud is a viable means of moving large quantities of content between devices.
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A server is a machine - a piece of hardware. the cloud could be anywhere on the planet and is virtualized, it is abstracted away from a server. so server is not cloud. cloud software generally doesn't know nor care about the hardware that it is sitting on.