So, the rate if increase (in density) is slowed by lack of demand for storage?
and in turn, demand for storage is slowed by lack of need for storage.
The real question should be: Where's my 4K video? My 10-bit-channel images? My lossless audio?
Yes they are here but not nearly as common as content delivered in ancient formats from over a decade ago. For example go on a wallpapers subreddit, the vast majority is still in 8-bit 1920x1080 JPEG. Video is still mostly 1080. The leading music services still deliver in 2-channel lossy formats. And this is 2016.
Most of this I suppose is because of the general slowness of the internet and the usage caps in many areas of the world.
So maybe improve internet service -> create more detailed content and let people save it -> people will want to demand more storage to store all that in.
Besides, pirated video content was really the only thing that most normal people could fill up their hard drives with (okay, maybe GoPro people or people with huge Steam libraries, too), but the Netflix and YouTube and Amazon Prime have taken a huge chunk out of that.
But I think storage space still matters on mobile. I haven't come close to filling up my laptop after 4 years of use, but I have to be careful about putting stuff on my iPod. Still it can store dozens of hours of audio, so it's not the biggest issue.
I can't wait for a photo manager with some kind of AI that goes through the pictures I've taken myself and offers them based on "feel good vibes", "eerie", "cozy" and so on, and learning what I like as it goes.
Apple please?
Not so useful for me, since I don't care to upload my entire photo collection to Google. Something like this that either works offline or can progressively tag photos and insert those tags in a format Lightroom could read would be awfully useful.
Series:
House of Cards
Marco Polo
Breaking Bad
The Blacklist
Movies and Documentaries
Smurfs 2
Philadelphia
Jerry Macguire
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Oceans (documentary)
Forests (documentary)
Flowers (documentary)
Either way it's the content producers and publishers' job to create more higher-quality and make consumers aware of it and make it easier for them consume it.
In this Age of YouTube, some of us can play our part by recording (as some recent phones/tablets can) and uploading in 4K. Design wallpapers in 4K. Even just seeing the higher resolution in the list of available options will increase awareness and pique more people to try a 4K display out.
While we're at it, let's make 10-bit/channel content more common too, now that the latest Macs and iPads have 10-bit displays. Anime fansubbers have already been producing 10-bit videos for a while.
Ever experienced YouTube buffering on an average connection? And that's for the metropolitan US -- consider the developing world, or even rural US, the mobile internet caps, etc.
Not to mention that even if you have enough speed, still you don't get much benefit from 4K video for 99% of stuff out there. Diminishing returns. I should know, I have projected good 1080p video to movie theaters, and nobody would call it bad or inadequate. On an average 15-27" monitor? It's not even an issue...
Said the American. In fact, probably the US doesn't matter in this regard, as it has lower average speeds than most of Europe and SE Asia.
Are you talking about consumer storage? Because need for enterprise storage (which I sell), is only increasing. What is decreasing is the revenue/profit per TB (naturally).
Once content producers make more higher-quality content, and enough consumers start consuming it, then won't the content providers need the extra storage too to serve that content from?