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Are you an iPhone user?
If so, I need you to do me a favor.
How many do you have?
For me, that number feels pretty startling: 33,679.
I also have an iPhone with 128GB of storage space.
In itslatest ad,Applesays that is lots of storage for photos.
In my case, though, that couldnt be further from the truth.
To be clear, Im not accusing Apple of being devious or of misleading people.
But its still remarkable to see just how much space my images occupy.
Ive got a 200GBiCloudplan andoffload my photosfrom my rig onto Apples cloud servers.
Theres no way I could fit all that onto my devices storage alongside everything else I store on it.
These days, all modern iPhones can take 48MP photos.
You dont need to have over 30,000 of the things to rapidly fill up 128GB.
Apple keeps giving us new ways to eat up our storage, without boosting that storage itself.
But even then 128GB didnt exactly feel spacious.
The obvious retort to this problem is a simple one: buy an iPhone with more storage.
Whats a little extra outlay on more storage?
The real solution is to make a spacious iPhone the default.
I know its not a like-for-like equivalent, but you get the point.
But while iCloud helps relieve some of the 128GB pain, its not a panacea.
For low-resolution images, thats (usually) fast enough.
But downloading 48MP photos or very high-resolution videos?
That can result in a long, tedious wait just to see your own work.
Ultimately, the ball is in Apples court now.
