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Old 01-11-2013, 10:58
flagpole
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Rolling forward 10 years when the whole country will have at a minimum 4G/5G technology and there is a big roll out of public wifi, then I personally believe we'll all use cloud storage more and more.

I appreciate that based on the situation as we are now this seems unlikely, but look how far we've already come in the last decade, so there's no reason to think we can't continue to improve download speed and coverage over the next decade.

For me, when I upgrade my phone next I will have a serious debate as to whether I actually need 32GB or can I live on 16GB. My entire music collection and purchased films live quite happily in the cloud. The only barrier is coverage and that will get better and better as time goes on.
10 years is a long time in technology.

it may be wrong to assume that the model will be basically the same as it is now with more cloud storage.

we may well have moved to cloud computing with thin clients everywhere. so your phone and your desktop would just be an interface for your cloud computer.
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Old 01-11-2013, 11:07
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it is the same technology.

the development of nand flash and dram are closely linked too. you can switch over a factory between the two quite quickly. there are lithographic improvements at the same rate. and SSD drive is basically a controller and some flash chips soldered to a board.

basically look at the physical size of a 64GB micro sd card.
Fair enough - wasn't entirely aware of the the specifics of that.

It's something I would have certainly expected Apple to at least try anyway. With the various iterations of the iPhone over the years, I guess I thought that a 128gb model would have been a natural progression, especially since the updates for the various "S" and now "C" models don't really seem to be that groud breaking.
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Old 01-11-2013, 12:26
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it is the same technology.

the development of nand flash and dram are closely linked too. you can switch over a factory between the two quite quickly. there are lithographic improvements at the same rate. and SSD drive is basically a controller and some flash chips soldered to a board.

basically look at the physical size of a 64GB micro sd card.
It might be easy to switch but its the viability of the product. There isn't the space in devices to stick more than 64GB with current technology. There is also a greater battery drain so a larger battery is required to keep a device competitive.

It's why on Apple devices we only see 128GB on the full sized IPads that have the space for a larger battery and more space for the NAND storage chips.

It really needs the next level of minitorisation of the NAND chips and reduced power consumption for it to become common place in phones and there just doesn't seem to be the driving force in the market to make that cost effective yet
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