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Jul 11, 2015 8:42 PM in response to Mar johnby Meg St._Clair,Yes, 55 gigs is about right. There is nothing unfair about it. See this article for an explanation:
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Jul 18, 2015 7:33 AM in response to Meg St._Clairby Mar john,Then why apple dont use same system to read the storage of the phone.. if they put 64 gb in the phone and read it as base(10) why they put in the system of the phone to read is base (2) instead of base(10)
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Jul 18, 2015 7:46 AM in response to Mar johnby Briansyddall,Hi
Because that what it is 64G before anything is added to iphone
Like apps and ios 8.4
Cheers
Brian
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Jul 18, 2015 8:02 AM in response to Mar johnby Lawrence Finch,Mar john wrote:
Then why apple dont use same system to read the storage of the phone.. if they put 64 gb in the phone and read it as base(10) why they put in the system of the phone to read is base (2) instead of base(10)
That's a good question, but no one here would know why Apple chose to report memory in base 2 on the phone; we're just users. It saves a smidgen of processing power to convert to decimal for the display, but that shouldn't be enough to justify it; just a simple division operation. I think it's probably just tradition. Windows does the same thing, BTW. But Mac OS X does not; on a Mac memory is reported in base 10.
As your question is pretty common in the Apple Support Community, think of all of the confusion, posts and answers that would be saved if the phone reported memory in base 10.