iPhone 3GS: 16MB or 32MB???

[flyingcheesehead]

I'd beg to differ on that, given staffing trends in the IT industry. I've got a pile of Gartner, Forrester, and other research data that backs me up, as well. In the US, the staffing multiplier is nearly 4:1 right now. In the "offshoring zones", that climbs to 6:1.

If you have 1/4 of the number of Java developers out there... Or even 1/6th... I think that still qualifies as "dime a dozen." I think the Java guys are probably getting closer to a penny a dozen.

But I'm not the exception in a corporate environment like mine.

True - But there are plenty of smaller (ie domestic-only) corporations that can get along without the international data, and the iPhone seems to REALLY appeal to the consumer demographic, so I don't think Android is going to "beat" the iPhone in overall sales.

I do see your points WRT Android taking a lot of business away from RIM in the enterprise market, and I think you're probably right on in your predictions there.

You may be right, but that is some serious tea-leaf reading.

Been following the company since the early 1980's. They still surprise me now and then, but they're not really as dumb as they seem to act sometimes. Steve is, shall we say, a rather determined individual, and he seems to have learned to spend quite a bit of money on contingencies as his management style has matured from the bad old days.

I'll say it again - Guarantee there's a CDMA iPhone at the mothership. No doubt in my mind.

Hopefully my tea-leaf reading is correct enough that I later feel more confident that I sold all my Apple stock this morning...

 

[flyingcheesehead]

I am a committed iPhone user. I just can't even imagine something better. Wait -- yes, I can. SOmething NOT on the AT&T network. Here's a question to those who pay attention to this stuff (not me) -- when does the AT&T exclusive end? i wouldn't mind upgrading my iPhone to 3GS but don't want to get locked in with AT&T for 2 yrs if other carriers will be available soon. I'm assuming, of course, that to get the phone now you get that long-a$$ contract to go with it.

The most reliable rumor, the one that was going around back in 2007 (as opposed to the current, wish-driven "any day now" variety) was that the contract was good for 5 years. The real question is, "when did it start?" The iPhone was announced in Jan 07, and shipped on 6/29/07. The other thing we don't know is whether there are some "out" clauses that could be exercised, or whether Apple or AT&T will end up with the rights to Visual Voicemail (though I kind of doubt Apple would have let AT&T get any sort of long-term rights to that).

FWIW, I'm confident enough that the contract will be in force for a while longer that I bought a 3GS and re-upped a month or so ago. I'm expecting that in 2.5 more years or so when I want another iPhone that I'll have the option of switching back to VZ.

Some people are interpreting the Verizon ad campaign thumbing its nose at the iphone as a sign that they don't believe that they're in line for an iphone contract any time soon, but that's speculation too.

I dunno, I took it as thumbing their nose at AT&T, not the iPhone - And thus also took it to mean that Verizon would love to have the iPhone soonish. Of course, since they thumbed their nose at Apple in the first place, we'll see how that works. Steve *does* hold a grudge sometimes, but again, he's not dumb. They'd make a lot of money on a VZ iPhone.

At least, I sure HOPE Apple gives it to VZ. I'll take AT&T over Sprint any day of the week if those are the only two choices.

 

[mantakos]

I dunno, I took it as thumbing their nose at AT&T, not the iPhone...

I don't mean the "there's a map for that" one, I mean the "iDont" one:

This takes direct aim at the iphone, not at AT&T.
-harry

 

[Commander Dave]

Back to the original question.

When I purchased my 3GS, I opted for the 32 GB.

While what everyone has said about the memory, space, and app usage is correct. There have been way too many times when I thought I was buying a hard drive for my computer that I would never be able to fill. I think the first was 20 or 40 MB's (yeah - that long ago)

As we continue to advance, we continue to find more stuff we want to store. You should see my garage

 

[mantakos]

This isn't for everybody, but I have an 8GB iphone 3g, and a 40GB+ music collection that wouldn't fit on the largest capacity iphone, any way.

My solution was an app from these guys:
http://www.simplifymedia.com/

The client runs on the iphone (obviously), and connects to a server app running on a mac (or could be a windows or linux box) at my house which has access to my full music collection. The net result is that I can play any music from my full music collection remotely on my iphone, as long as I have a data connection. The data connection could be wifi, obviously, but it also works great over 3G (I haven't tried edge).
-harry