03-03-2017, 07:11 PM
Lew Zealand wrote: Does Apple make more money on services or on people buying new hardware when their old stuff gets too "small?"
Well, Apple's made exactly $0 off me from their cloud storage services over the years... and I've paid at least $300 since 2011 to get extra capacity (16GB to 32GB) built into 4 iPhones in that time so that I didn't have to depend on their crummy cloud for my data and content. That comes out to less than $5/month for me. What's the cheapest iCloud expansion I could have had? How much extra would it have been for me to get iTunes Match to have all my music?
Yeah, I'm not the typical customer but I'll bet this answers the numbers question in terms of the pros/cons on a case by case basis.
To update the numbers, if an iPhone SE with 128GB is introduced and/or there's a price drop on the 64GB version, I'm highly likely to get one, more than doubling what I've put in so far, which likely would then tilt the equation against my phone storage strategy and in favor of Apple's Cloud costs.