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I imagine they make a ton of it back from users who never need anywhere near that much space. I have the non-technical people of my life insist on a terabyte f

• margalabargala 3y ago
  Depending on usage patterns this assumption might not hold. Improvements in cameras etc are causing the sizes of the photos and videos that people take to hugely increase in size. The prior ipad you spoke of might have only recorded 720p video, while the new Pro likely does at least 4k. If they use their ipad to record video of family events, that 1tb might represent the same usage as the old one.
• Nextgrid 3y ago
  Keep in mind that these scam devices rarely present themselves as a functional but lower-capacity version. It's more often the case that the device does present the advertised capacity, but with a massive "black hole" in the middle where any writes are silently discarded. Depending on your filesystem, you don't need to write much data at all before you're likely to hit this "black hole" and start losing data.