Why does Apple charge so much for storage?

[Comessy]

It doesn't make sense

 

 

They are charging OVER $200 for 112GB. What the hell.

 

And you can buy a 128GB SD card for about $60

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA12K2976965&cm_re=micro_sd_128gb-_-0DF-0005-005B9-_-Product

 

Is this what you call innovation? Are they using some sort of super storage?

 

Do they have any plans to address this issue?

 

[minibois]

Because people buy it

 

/le obvious statement is obvious

[thekeemo]

Because they appeal to oooh pretty not price/perf

[Oberon.Smite]

Because white people buy anything.

 

[Mao_Zedong]

Well most other large companies do the same thing. The reason they do it is that people will buy the larger ones anyways.

[Paralectic]

Samsung does the same.

[MegaDave91]

Sheeple will gladly pay for it.

[ThatSemiConductor]

Well, to be fair, an SD card is quite different from flash storage. Obliviously, and SSD that has 128gb isn't going to be the same price as a 128gb sd card. The most likely reason for the huge increase in price for the largest capacity ipod is that there aren't a lot of factories making super tiny flash storage modules

[LiamApex]

Because its Crapple and there ISHEEP, BAhhhhhhhhhhhh. 

 

it should be 50 Cents a GIG

[SxTripxH]

The upcoming sequel to the bad movie known as Apple will no longer offer 16GB. I believe the new OS they are working on is too large to fit on the 16GB (it's in the 6-8GB range iirc). I am not sure but the new price span might be even larger with a greater storage to profit ratio. That probably doesn't make you feel any better though...

[Yummychickenblue]

Well if you don't like it you could always go build your own smartphone just for you with all the storage you want.

[arronleeds]

apple are nobs, you dont even get 16gb on a 16gb iphone, you get around 12, i think there was a lawsuit over it.

[Juanse]

Apple doen't put SD cards on their products just to vharge an overprice on the internal storage

[arronleeds]

check this link out

 

http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/02/technology/mobile/apple-iphone-lawsuit/

[Knaj]

If people will pay a lot for it, then you can be sure Apple will put their prices high.

[xQubeZx]

I would guess it has a few different reasons.

1. People buy it wich means they can earn more money from a higher price.

2. A flash chip is a bit more expensive than a SD card so then it will be a bit more expensive then a 128GB SD card.

3. The chip itself has to be more complex beacuse it has to have like double the storage in the same size as the 16GB card wich means more advanced technology wich costs more.

4. Its a smaller supply on those chips so the companies charge more for them beacuse its the only ones avalible wich means they can't do nothing more than pay more. 

[niofalpha]

The same thing happens on Galaxy phones...

[ThatSemiConductor]

The upcoming sequel to the bad movie known as Apple will no longer offer 16GB. I believe the new OS they are working on is too large to fit on the 16GB (it's in the 6-8GB range iirc). I am not sure but the new price span might be even larger with a greater storage to profit ratio. That probably doesn't make you feel any better though...

Actually Apple is shrinking it down to approx. 1.3gb which is reasonable for an os update. http://fortune.com/2015/06/23/apple-ios-update/

[kirashi]

Well, to be fair, an SD card is quite different from flash storage. Obliviously, and SSD that has 128gb isn't going to be the same price as a 128gb sd card. The most likely reason for the huge increase in price for the largest capacity ipod is that there aren't a lot of factories making super tiny flash storage modules

 

The capacity crammed in such a small space is definitely a factor, but a lot of people don't seem to understand the performance and overwrittability differences between external SD cards and internal storage.

Plus, because Apple (and other manufacturers) don't have an external storage slot, you have to pay them for more storage. So they can charge whatever they feel like simply because they're the only ones who can provide you with more storage.

 

Can anyone explain the difference between eMMC Flash NAND and SDcard NAND? There's a cookie in it for you. GO.

[PaulKolby]

It doesn't make sense

 

 

They are charging OVER $200 for 112GB. What the hell.

 

And you can buy a 128GB SD card for about $60

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA12K2976965&cm_re=micro_sd_128gb-_-0DF-0005-005B9-_-Product

 

Is this what you call innovation? Are they using some sort of super storage?

 

Do they have any plans to address this issue?

cause its apple i thought you expect this

[JustChilliing]

apple are nobs, you dont even get 16gb on a 16gb iphone, you get around 12, i think there was a lawsuit over it.

 

 

Any device that stores data is formatted like this, my Xbox One came with 120GB off the 500GB advertised. 4GB for an OS is fine.

[arronleeds]

Any device that stores data is formatted like this, my Xbox One came with 120GB off the 500GB advertised. 4GB for an OS is fine.

It's classed as false advertisement, if something says 16gb you expect 16gb, it says the capacity of mine is 12.1gb, that's just less 25% of the apparent 16gb gone, they should be advertised at 12gb.

[ThatSemiConductor]

It's classed as false advertisement, if something says 16gb you expect 16gb.

Android 5.0 Lollipop is approx. the same size as ios 9 (around 1 gb).

[arronleeds]

Android 5.0 Lollipop is approx. the same size as ios 9 (around 1 gb).

Well iOS 8 is more than 1gb, considering I only have a max of 12.1gb.

[ThatSemiConductor]

Well iOS 8 is more than 1gb, considering I only have a max of 12.1gb.

yea, but the latest ios (ios 9) is going to be 1.3 gb