Io 8 has had its share of problems , and now we can throw one more on the pile : a lawsuit . Two plaintiffs have filed a wooing claim their 16 GB iPhones and iPads do n’t actually come with 16 GB of depot , and Io 8 takes up too much outer space — and Apple should make that clearer , in case we are all idiots who do n’t get that operating arrangement do use storage .
Ars Technica’siOS 8 : Thoroughly Reviewedincludes a look at how much more reposition space iOS 8 consumes , versus a clean install of iOS 7.1.2 , and it does gobble a important chunk : about 740 MB on iPhones and 1.03 GB on iPads . If you ’re using a 16 GB equipment , that ’s 4.5 to 6.4 percent . Which does n’t sound like a ton , but 740 Bachelor of Medicine can admit a hatful of photo .
This lawsuit is still pretty silly on its face , for a couple of reasons . The plaintiffs want the class to include not just masses who upgraded their devices to iOS 8 , but people who buy raw devices with iOS 8 preinstalled on them . But those masses did n’t “ lose ” anything — they never had that memory space , because every computing twist that ships with an operating organization ferment the same . Some of the advertised space is taken up by the OS . That ’s baseball .
The complaint come with its own board of capacity figure , sort of like Ars Technica’s … except that the data displayed is “ represented capacity ” of 16 GB versus the factual capability with Io 8 installed . So that exceptional board is n’t show that iOS 8 hogs more quad than Io 7 — just that it uses electrical capacity , period .
Cloud pushers
And the suit of clothes also observe that Apple cruelly offer “ to deal that capacity in a desperate mo , e.g. , when a consumer is trying to record or take photos at a child or grandchild ’s recital , basketball biz or wedding . ” The suit is refer to iCloud storage here of course , but it ’s not like once you give Apple your money while sitting courtside at the narration part of your grandkid ’s basketball - themed wedding , on the spur of the moment your iPhone grows more gigabytes and you may magically take more picture — unless you delete some .
iOS 8 demo you exactly what ’s taking up quad — and it ’s ordinarily photo and picture . While buy iCloud storage is one fix , it ’s for sure not the only one .
But before you erase them from your Camera Roll , you ’ve got to put them somewhere else . iCloud — liberal or paid — won’t really avail you unless you ’re capable to upload all the exposure from the dry run dinner over Wi - Fi . So deterrent example learned : If you ’re going to a big event , ensure there ’s mountain of elbow room available for photograph and television . And of course there are copious options for storing your photos so you may cancel them from your Camera Roll : Flickr , Google+ , Google Drive , OneDrive , Dropbox , and their first cousin , or — gasp — just plug away your equipment into your computer once in a while and spare them to your intemperate drive .
So this lawsuit strikes me as being a bit whiny — kind of “ Apple neversaidI’d have toplug in my iPhoneto commove it ! ” you know?—but I ’m certain people have sued Apple overdumber thing . Yeah , iOS 8 does take up a mint of storage . And it ’s true,16 GB feels stingyeven for entry - level devices these days . But asLesa Snider just wrote in her reviewof cross - platform pic - storage solution Mylio , “ The world is that you wo n’t have few picture in five years , you ’ll only have more . ” reckon out where to store them all is on you . Not Apple .
