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Why Apple Keeps Making 16gb Phones

We are all wondering why Apple keeps making 16GB phones right. After the operating system, there is only 14 GB left for your use and in our the high-quality media world we all know that is not enough, even one high-quality photo takes more than…

Owen Castellanos
Owen CastellanosHardware & Gaming Reporter
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Why Apple Keeps Making 16gb Phones

We are all wondering why Apple keeps making 16GB phones right. After the operating system, there is only 14 GB left for your use and in our the high-quality media world we all know that is not enough, even one high-quality photo takes more than 3 MB space, every update that Apple releases take a lot of spaces so why they are still producing 16gb models?

Well we have same theories for this;
First of all Apple want to you to use iCloud space, they want monthly subscriptions, cash that comes from hundreds of thousands of people. The second 16gb is affordable for many people, particularly in the third world countries. And the third one that one is weird, the third one is because people who like to test iPhone on stupid stuff like,
  • Putting in Water to testing its waterproof ( logical ).
  • Drop test ( logical ).
  • Shooting the phone with a gun.
  • Shooting the phone with arrows.
  • Throw it in the volcano.
  • Riding a motorcycle on it.
  • Boiling it.
So why are they doing this stuff?
The technology news websites want to test the phone for their users, and the right thing they are doing for the people who considering to buy the phone or Tearing it down to see the infrastructure like ifixit.com do, we think ifixit.com one of the most useful sites ever made.
Another reason some companies or some people want to get attention on YouTube or try to do gorilla marketing. For getting the attention of the people to a product with a cheaper cost, that is mostly an application, like this one, they throw the phone to a hot lava for testing – they say – but the main reason is marketing their app.

Watch the video on YouTube

So Apple must be realizing these weird people do and they keep making 16gb because they will know people will ruin these phones, no need to put more storage in it, no need to waste.

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Owen Castellanos

Owen Castellanos

Hardware & Gaming Reporter

Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.

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