This article is ignorant in so many ways.<p>1) Apple did see this problem coming. See iCloud Photo Library.<p>2) Before smartphones, we had digital cameras, and what did we have to do with them? That's right, we took out the card and copied the photos to our computers. Just because your smartphone acts like a computer doesn't mean that you should treat it the same. Copy. Organize. Curate. Sync. Done.<p>3) What does one of your people's opinion of the iTunes logo have to do with the price of tea in China? Moreover, it cements the impetuous and immature tone of the article. Whining "look at me" is not how to get things done. Grow up and prove yourself.<p>Ladies and gentlemen, please think before you blog.
If Antenna Gate served as a template for how they could respond, the Jobsian answer would be one of: "upgrade to a larger phone", "use iCloud", or "don't take so many photos".
The 16/64/128 GB lineup for the iPhone 6 ensures this is only going to get worse. Why they didn't bump up to 32 GB as the base level is beyond me.
You can turn on iCloud Photo Library (Beta) which does pretty much exactly this - keeps low-res images on the phone and keeps the high res original in iCloud. (Since it's an Apple cloud-based storage product I don't trust it completely, so I also have Dropbox Photo Sync).<p>Don't really understand what the Steve Jobs email is doing in there either.
That survey seems entirely misleading. It doesn't even have an option for never running out of space. I don't own an iPhone, but i have an android device with 16GB of space and can manage my own space myself so I never run out.
Dunno, I find that Photos aren't that hard to manage for me as I don't take too many and delete bad ones quickly (though only through a Windows File Explorer; hard to mount into other programs) but I ALWAYS appear to have a 3GB "Other" space in my phone (according to iTunes) that I can't seem to shrink. It's the only reason I want to jailbreak my phone, to get in there and see just what's in there.<p>I'm sure I'd fill up that space with apps and photos, and be right back where I started... but at least I could try to manage it, vs. just staring and wondering...
The limitation on Apple storage is a bad business decision in my opinion. Once my storage got full I simply stopped buying apps unless absolutely necessary. Before that I purchased everything I could find that looked mildly interesting.<p>It also means I never buy movies from Apple because there is simply no space on the device to download to.<p>IMO bad business decision.
An app that reduces photo memory requirements is a nice start, but the only long-lasting solution to this problem is by allowing the hardware to accept memory upgrades.<p>It's a pipe dream to expect Apple to allow external storage on their phones, so this is likely to be the last iPhone I own. It's simply not a tenable situation.
Turning off Photo Stream helps bigtime. I'm surprised the article didn't mention that.<p>If there was some way to adjust the stream buffer down from 1,000 photos that would probably help a lot of people. But you (still) can't change the number.
Why buy a product from a company that doesn't care about your choice? An example would be how just about every smartphone on the market is capable of MicroSD storage but the iphone is not. I have a 128GB SD card in my phone.