rdunne3 wrote:
This is why no one has indicated that they have been helped by ANY of the answers. Does this bother any of
you high-level "experts"?
I read the referenced article but I also asked for your OPINION!
"Should Apple honestly market a 16GB phone that barely has room to load iOS 9.1 and swap space to update after most basic use?"
Additionally, how about you READ the question before answering blindly? What I noted is that PROPOTIONALLY the two systems for measuring flash drive are misreporting the difference on a 16GB vs 32GB vs 64GB vs 128GB because they should be proportional to each other but they're not.
Any experts out there care to venture an actual answer?
They are not linearly proportional because as total storage size increases, the sector size and file system layout also changes, to make optimal use of the available storage. The same thing goes for conventional hard drives, available formatted storage is not strictly linear with increasing formatted capacity.
Do they not teach the differences in base 10 and base 2 math in schools any longer? I can understand people not understanding the finer points of binary storage formats such as sector size and so forth, but grasping the simple difference between capacity in base 10 versus base 2 should be simple for anyone with a high school diploma.