BCS Wrote: > Hello Nick, > > > "BCS" <n...@anon.com> wrote in message > > news:a6268ff1b9ca8cd1c2c66c86...@news.digitalmars.com... > > > >> Hello Nick, > >> > >>> "BCS" <n...@anon.com> wrote in message > >>> news:a6268ff1b9958cd1bfa01297...@news.digitalmars.com... > >>>> Hello Nick, > >>>> > >>>>> Ugh, don't even get me started on MicroSD. Ordinary SD is already > >>>>> too small if you ask me, although I still put up with it anyway. > >>>>> Now MicroSD, well I can't say anything about it without raising my > >>>>> blood pressure... > >>>>> > >>>> My point was that space (volume) is not what limits how much space > >>>> (GB) a phone has. > >>>> > >>> And my link dispelled that myth. Try putting 200GB+ into a MicroSD > >>> form factor at the cost of a 2.5" HDD. Yea, eventually that'll > >>> happen, but by then I could get a HDD many times bigger than that > >>> for the same price. > >>> > >> I wouldn't. I'd put it in a package about 4-5 times as big and mount > >> it on the PC board. Besides, what the heck do you need more than > >> about 32GB for on a phone? If you need to shoot that much video, get > >> a real camera! > >> > > Like I said, there's two kinds of "phones": "phone" phones, and PDA > > "phones". For the former, I *still* agree with you. For the latter: If > > I were going to blow the money on a "smartphone" (as they're calling > > them now) or on some sort of iPad-like device (which is the other > > thing I've been talking about), I would expect it to replace a > > dedicated camera and a dedicated portable music player. And they can > > easily do so just by slapping a HDD in there. (BTW, by current music > > player, which also does video - a feature I rather like is 40GB and I > > find it uncomfortably tight. Plus, with that tightness, I can't really > > use it as an external HDD, which I used to do, and found very > > helpful.) I'm not interested in toting around twenty different > > gadgets. There can be only one! > > > > Stuff a person has to store expands to fit the space they have to store it > in. It's some kind of immutable law of nature that transcends computers and > closet space. If you had 4.5TB of storage space, then you'd just want to > store 5TB. The solution isn't more storage space as that just stalls the > problem for about 10min/Mb.
That's only true when you're working for Google and steal personal wifi data. Ordinary man cannot have 5 TB of data because ALL standard movie/audio CD/DVD/Bluray/HD-DVD discs have DRM copy protection. According to DMCA breaking the encryption is illegal. Online shops only rent the same material. Software developers may need more space, but 99.9% of people are not software developers. Thus q.e.d, you don't need that much space.