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So does this mean Apple will finally stop shipping a 16GB iPhone as entry level?

Not to mention the iPad.

The original iPad came out over 5 years ago with 16 GB of storage. Entry level iPads still have 16 GB of storage.

Given that iOS has gotten bigger and retina iPads made a lot of apps bigger, entry level iPad storage has actually regressed considerably.

Pretty confusing, given that flash prices have gone down considerably in 5 years.

I guess you don't bank $200 billion by being generous to your customers.

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Complaining about overpriced/limited storage options in the iPad/iPhone is like complaining about overpriced/limited food options at a sporting event, airport or any other venue where you've got no other option than to buy from an approved vendor.

With lock-in comes higher prices.

There's no lock-in what's at play here for most people. You can get a tablet/smartphone from several vendors, including Samsung, Google and Microsoft and people switch from iOs to Android and back all the time. It's not like apps are a huge investment or that it's hard to move your data across.

These people WANT to buy the iPad/iPhone, instead of something else. So a more accurate response would be "with desirability come higher prices".

We have students who WANT to buy Apple products like crazy at the school I work at. The majority of responses for why they want them is, "They look pretty."

Well, they do. But as a seasoned IT pro who cut his teeth on Sun OS and HP-UX back in the day, having a high end machine, with a great screen, great battery life and quite light to carry around that also has a friendly UI and runs a full blown UNIX underneath but also gets all major proprietary programs is nothing to sneer at either, pretty or not.

There's a reason even Linus Torvalds carried a MacBook Air (though I think he found something even lighter now).

They want to push customers to use iCloud for data storage.

No, they want to squeeze an extra $100 out of you for $5 of flash storage. Most people will pay it too because 16GB is pretty crippling.

It's like buying a new car that comes with a 5 gallon gas tank that costs $40,000 and having to pay $50,000 for the same model except with a 10 gallon tank. Everyone knows it's a rip off but the car is really cool otherwise and there is no way to change the tank yourself.

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