That still doesn't answer the question. Not being able to upgrade because you're out of space is different issue from the temporary (bloated) space usage OP claimed would make people buy a new iPhone.
And as someone else pointed out, you can always use iTunes to upgrade.
Help me understand how temporary wasted space (the specific OP claim) that goes away (is not an issue) after the upgrade, is going to make people go buy a new phone again?
Since the flash memory comes in 1K=1024 boundaries, and there's only 1 chip, I don't think Apple would buy a 114GB chip to stick it in the phone. And really, if they went with 1K=1000, you should see *MORE*, not less.
I am now wondering how much is reserved for wear leveling, etc.
No. You can delete it now, without upgrading. Apple released a utility to do that within a couple of weeks of iOS 8 coming out.
You mean like how when Apple purposefully degrades the performance of older iOS devices when a new iOS version is out (that won't run on the older hardware)?
Help me understand what you just wrote?
1) Apple purposefully degrades the performance
2) of older iOS devices
3) when a new iOS version is out
4) (that won't run on the older hardware)?
Are you claiming Apple makes the older iOS that is currently installed on your phone, work slower, when a new version of iOS is released (but not installed on your phone)? If you can prove it, I'm sure the lawyers would love to speak to you.
If you cannot prove it, I'm sure the psychiatrists would love to speak to you.
How maddening it must be for you that there are so many insane people around the world, right?
And strangely enough, even though Samsung used up to half of the memory on a 16GB Android phone, that's not an issue to these lawyers.
Is this a serious question?! Apple wants to add wasted space to their iOS distributions in order to take up more space while downloading, use up more space during the upgrade, and once the upgrade is over, return the wasted space to the user (because once you've upgraded, the upgrade file is deleted).
And Apple would do this so that they can reduce the number of people running their latest iOS?
*ARE YOU SHITTING ME?* How the hell is this even an insightful comment?
You realize that KDE uses WebKit now, right? Apple forked KHTML into WebKit, and a few years ago, KDE decided to go with the forked KHTML, aka, WebKit.
https://techbase.kde.org/Proje...
https://konqueror.org/features...
WebKit came from KDE.
Go half an inch bigger, or smaller? Being a bit snarky here, but I thought Android was all about choice? It seems hard to believe that there's only one phone in the iPhone 6 size...
The A5 is a bigger phone so its not really a replacement for the Alpha.
If you want an Alpha sized phone without touchwiz, wait a month or two and see how the CyanogenMod 11 port is going.
In other words, buy a piece of hardware/software combo, and throw away the software, and warranty, and spend a bunch of time and effort screwing with it to try to make it work?
Why not just buy a Nexus or another phone?
Uh, Nexus?
The Internet really needs a sarcasm font, or one of those dry dripping irony fonts or something similar.
Exactly. Buy it, pop it on the network, give it a DNS name, and update your GPO or puppet.conf and you're done.
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