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>storage being 'a feature, not a product.

Somewhat unrelated mini-rant. Upgraded a phone recently after about 3 years. Surprised to see storage still capped around 128GB (in-general). That's got to be artificially held back capacity to push cloud storage services?

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There's lots of phones with more and/or with SD slots. It's not really "capped" as much as default size that seems to work just fine for the majority.

I’ve got a 512GB phone with 112GB used. I’ve put absolutely no effort whatsoever into keeping that number done, and I’m not shy about downloading stuff to it.

I’m certain plenty of people need way more than 128GB. I figured I’d be one of them when I bought this. Nope. I bought a much bigger device than I actually needed.

If I’ve used less than 128GB, I’ve gotta think most other people do too. Not all, clearly! But most? I’d bet on it.

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