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Wow, so many 32gb ipads. Who buys those? Seems to me you're price sensitive or you aren't, and you want disk space to dump all your stuff on it or you don't car

Wow, so many 32gb ipads. Who buys those? Seems to me you're price sensitive or you aren't, and you want disk space to dump all your stuff on it or you don't care too much. I don't quite see the use case for the middle ground.

gte910h 16y ago
16GB is just a LITTLE too small for a week of movies to watch for the kids.
ojbyrne 16y ago
"Apple (AAPL) ran out of 16GB iPads first, then 32BG models..." could have been a factor.
- TillE 16y ago
  Makes sense. Those flash upgrades are, what, 80% profit? Manufacturing lots of the 32GB models early on would probably be a good decision.
  - qq66 16y ago
    16->32GB upgrade should be about 87% gross margin and 32->64GB at 74% gross margin, exclusive of the cost of inventorying multiple SKUs.
- aaronbrethorst 16y ago
  I picked up a 16GB model yesterday, but I would've sprung for the 32 if they'd run out of the 16GB models. It was probably sufficiently important to me to have a black version that I would have picked up the 32GB black iPad before a 16GB white one.
  - radicaldreamer 16y ago
    Out of curiosity, why'd you go for the black model?
    - aaronbrethorst 16y ago
      I figured the white bezel would be distracting.
    - bugmenot 16y ago
      Because he's not a she?
TillE 16y ago
I use Air Video and StreamToMe for almost all my media, but 16GB can start to feel a bit cramped if you install more than a few of the larger games. I'd still buy the $499 model myself, but I can understand why someone would think 16GB is not quite enough.
tsktskstk 16y ago
I have a 32gb ipad, and bought it out of choice. None of them are big enough to store all my stuff, but 32 seemed like a nice middle ground that'd work reasonably well for a year or two, until I upgrade again.
bigiain 16y ago
I wonder if its "second cheapest syndrome"? https://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18811 https://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18811 Lots of people don't want to be seen as cheapskates, so the seller intentionally prices the second cheapest item with a very generous margin.
stcredzero 16y ago
I have a 32GB original iPad. If you want to be able to have all the pictures you can imagine having, but don't care too much about having your music collection there, then 32GB might be a good size. iPad form factor is great for photos. It's a bit big for a music player. This was my thinking. Another reason: if you have a 32GB iPhone, then you could sync the same content subset with both devices, which might be easier to maintain than two sets of content for both.
Ashwani 16y ago
This is how a friend rationalized it: He wanted to buy the 16gb 3g model, but realized that some of the games e.g. fifa 2011 run close to 1G in size. Naturally, if there are 10 of these apps, you would run out of space on the 16gb model. 32 seems like a good middleground, which is what he went for

gte910h 16y ago

16GB is just a LITTLE too small for a week of movies to watch for the kids.

ojbyrne 16y ago

"Apple (AAPL) ran out of 16GB iPads first, then 32BG models..." could have been a factor.

TillE 16y ago
Makes sense. Those flash upgrades are, what, 80% profit? Manufacturing lots of the 32GB models early on would probably be a good decision.
- qq66 16y ago
  16->32GB upgrade should be about 87% gross margin and 32->64GB at 74% gross margin, exclusive of the cost of inventorying multiple SKUs.
aaronbrethorst 16y ago
I picked up a 16GB model yesterday, but I would've sprung for the 32 if they'd run out of the 16GB models. It was probably sufficiently important to me to have a black version that I would have picked up the 32GB black iPad before a 16GB white one.
- radicaldreamer 16y ago
  Out of curiosity, why'd you go for the black model?
  - aaronbrethorst 16y ago
    I figured the white bezel would be distracting.
  - bugmenot 16y ago
    Because he's not a she?

TillE 16y ago

I use Air Video and StreamToMe for almost all my media, but 16GB can start to feel a bit cramped if you install more than a few of the larger games. I'd still buy the $499 model myself, but I can understand why someone would think 16GB is not quite enough.

tsktskstk 16y ago

I have a 32gb ipad, and bought it out of choice. None of them are big enough to store all my stuff, but 32 seemed like a nice middle ground that'd work reasonably well for a year or two, until I upgrade again.

bigiain 16y ago

I wonder if its "second cheapest syndrome"? https://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18811 https://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/18811 Lots of people don't want to be seen as cheapskates, so the seller intentionally prices the second cheapest item with a very generous margin.

stcredzero 16y ago

I have a 32GB original iPad. If you want to be able to have all the pictures you can imagine having, but don't care too much about having your music collection there, then 32GB might be a good size. iPad form factor is great for photos. It's a bit big for a music player. This was my thinking. Another reason: if you have a 32GB iPhone, then you could sync the same content subset with both devices, which might be easier to maintain than two sets of content for both.

Ashwani 16y ago

This is how a friend rationalized it: He wanted to buy the 16gb 3g model, but realized that some of the games e.g. fifa 2011 run close to 1G in size. Naturally, if there are 10 of these apps, you would run out of space on the 16gb model. 32 seems like a good middleground, which is what he went for