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My thinking is the following people: -> Status symbols, Mobile Phones are the new Cars and mobile stats are the new horsepower, so being able to brag you have
by demarq 8y ago
My thinking is the following people:
-> Status symbols, Mobile Phones are the new Cars and mobile stats are the new horsepower, so being able to brag you have a n extra tb of storage over your other colleagues might be a thing. Esp in mobile nations like UK and India
-> Social media is slowly switching to video over still images (greater access to high bandwidth). So people will be taking editing and sharing more video instead of pictures and that increase storage requirements many many times over. I know most people who heavily use social media already find 32gb limiting when what they post most of are images.
-> Gamers, most AAA mobile games require large extra content downloads that are in multiples of gigabytes.
-> Geeks, because 1TB SD cards are quite a technological marvel.
-> Mobile Cinematographers, Laugh now but this will slowly become a thing. Looking at Sony and LG offering more and more bold mobile cinematography devices like the Xperia X1. These phones are able to deliver RAW footage files. Also Nokia's latest five camera flag ship puts out RAW stills that can be 10s of megabytes per image. I see a proliferation on the horizon.
-> Streamers, Mobile networks can be patchy, public wifi sketchy, and corporate internet to restricted so youtube, netflix, and showmax allow people to download movies to watch later. However low amounts of storage capacity currently limit the resolution of of content you can download.
I believe at least two of these use cases will hold true in the near future. But at the current high prices maybe only Geeks will buy them.