Apple memory price hikes - Micro SD cards
Apple memory price hikes - Micro SD cards
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DaveGrohl

Original Poster:

1,170 posts

123 months

Apologies, prob been done to death on here.

WTAF has been going on with the mobile phone industry? Apple now whacked up prices by 20%.
Memory prices been rocketing for years and the response has been let’s all remove card storage so we’ve got everyone over a barrel with no lube.

I’ve had an S9+ for many years. Brilliant phone which I’ve zero desire to replace, with a decent Micro SD card onboard that still isn’t anywhere near full.

Issue is the onboard internal storage is chocca and I keep having to delete stuff I don’t want to just to jeep it limping along.

Bit the bullet and got an A55 but haven’t transferred yet. Last of Micro SD card enabled A series.
Also got my lad his first phone, an A35 with Micro SD which cost £15 for more memory than he’ll ever use.

1. I don’t want to pay extortionate amounts of money for a phone that has got decent internal memory.
2. I don’t want to pay ever-increasing cloud storage fees just to keep pictures of my kids when they were younger.
I would still like to be able to see these pictures on my phone rather than having to sit down at a computer.

Am I just old and grumpy?
Total rant yes.
Bloody sick of enstification. It happens to everything.

RotorRambler

1,124 posts

16 months

DaveGrohl said:
Apologies, prob been done to death on here.

WTAF has been going on with the mobile phone industry? Apple now whacked up prices by 20%.
Memory prices been rocketing for years and the response has been let s all remove card storage so we ve got everyone over a barrel with no lube.

I ve had an S9+ for many years. Brilliant phone which I ve zero desire to replace, with a decent Micro SD card onboard that still isn t anywhere near full.

Issue is the onboard internal storage is chocca and I keep having to delete stuff I don t want to just to jeep it limping along.

Bit the bullet and got an A55 but haven t transferred yet. Last of Micro SD card enabled A series.
Also got my lad his first phone, an A35 with Micro SD which cost £15 for more memory than he ll ever use.

1. I don t want to pay extortionate amounts of money for a phone that has got decent internal memory.
2. I don t want to pay ever-increasing cloud storage fees just to keep pictures of my kids when they were younger.
I would still like to be able to see these pictures on my phone rather than having to sit down at a computer.

Am I just old and grumpy?
Total rant yes.
Bloody sick of enstification. It happens to everything.
20% price increase?



Steve_H80

587 posts

48 months

How much cloud storage do you need for your photos? 200GB is only £30/year - way cheaper than anew phone and your photographs are then backed up against phone loss.

SAS Tom

3,742 posts

200 months

RotorRambler said:
20% price increase?


Don’t let facts get in the way

greygoose

9,520 posts

221 months

Aren’t the 20% increases on iPads and Macs rather than phones?

BlueJazz

838 posts

198 months

Apple hikes some prices by nearly 20% while Xbox raises console cost.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3ryj81ywlro

BBC cover the price increase too.

  • The iPhone maker has hiked the prices of some laptops and tablets by almost 20%, saying the electronics industry is facing an "unprecedented challenge" due to an "extraordinary surge" in demand for chips to power AI data centres."