QUOTE(westlife @ Sep 9 2017, 02:18 PM)
good for u if u can make urself survived with it but it is certainly not everyone.
cloud storage only works provided if you have Super high bandwidth internet which in bolehland there are still many ppl are using Super slow streamyx ADSL Internet. Accessing a productivity files or music files using cloud is certainly not a problem. But For one to access a huge video files or even editing videos using cloud is still a joke given the latency. Not to mention if someone is to do this on the move while the data is not unlimited.
and if one need to buy external storage like u mention, it already means that the storage is Nor even enough like u said in the first place. And Nor to mention the performance of the external storage vs the lighting fast built-in storage is totally a different story. In addition, bringing external storage alongside with mobile devices like ipad already defeats the purpose of it.
Not to forget. New iPad Pro comes with superb camera of iphone 7 which a lot of ppl can use it to create content, 32gb storage will be a joke of it.
IPad Pro is an expensive device to purchase in the first place, I do not see the reason why someone needs to 'cheap' out and Nor getting the mid tier storage option by paying a fraction of the total price of it.
Then why did Apple produce the base model? And why did workarounds doesn’t help or as you said defeat it?
There are a lot of people bought base model out there,32GB or 64GB. You had complain so much of it and said we cheap out the iPads, do you think we are going to return it and change? Hell no, why don’t just suggest some workarounds and help people?
We, as base model user perhaps utilise more than those using mid tier or higher tier storage option. We are not “bolehpeople” who afford another 500bucks upgrade and we might under utilise the storage. Installing thousands apps doesn’t help you to be more productive. You UTILISE to be productive. With RM189, I am able to use a thin 1TB external storage which allowing files transfer between PC and iPad. If as what you said keeping all those high memory size photos or content, how do you going to export it out, not flexible right?
iOS 11 is so intelligent to convert the photos into a format even smaller than jPeg while having better quality. I am a iPhoneographer and I am taking RAW using iPhone, editing RAWs on iPhone, creating travel videos out of it and yes, I am using 64GB. Clear those unwanted files occasionally and you will find 64 or 32GB is useful.
Your suggestions perhaps useful for those users who are rich or who really wanna create a lot of art content on-the-go. But for those or like the host of this topic, he need it for college and not for content creating, might as well suggesting them on how to utilise more than what you think your iPad might give or restrict. Plenty of apps and workarounds waiting for you to discover it instead of being a dumb user relying on what iPad can gives you at the meanwhile.
I am discussing at a student standpoint. We only afford a base model which we looking forward to digitalise our documents. Nice discussion with you by the way, at least I see a view from a content user.