> It makes you wonder what does the humanity store in those hundreds of exabytes per year. Let’s as a hypothetical assume that Apple iPhones average 128GB of s

> It makes you wonder what does the humanity store in those hundreds of exabytes per year. Let’s as a hypothetical assume that Apple iPhones average 128GB of storage in 2019 (they go up to 512gb after all now). Let’s also assume Apple sells 50M iPhones in 2019. Doing the math, assuming my wild estimates are right, that gives us about 6.4 exabytes of storage usage in 2019 for just iPhones alone. Android however ships something like 1.25B devices per year. The storage average is way lower I’d assume, but that’s still easily in the tens of exabytes per year most likely.