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Lopatir wrote: to install whatever storage you have will always be a premium.
It's only a premium when storage space is running low. Why is storage space such an issue these days? The capacity to make bigger and larger storage is there.
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Quote: especially those saddled with just 16GB of storage.
Whoever will need more than 64 KB of memory?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Whoever will need more than 64K Bit of memory?
FTFY! 
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Nobody. I always forget the useless bits.
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RyanDev wrote: Will this really save much space? Do you have many apps that are big in file size?
Absolutely. Maps can be well into the Gb size, as can graphics/asset heavy games.
It's also not about individual size: if you happen to be a hoarder then 100 apps each at 100Mb will be 10Gb, right? That's harsh if you've only been able to afford a 16Gb version of the phone.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Maps can be well into the Gb size
But I wonder if the OS will consider the maps to be data and leave them behind, assuming they are separate resource files and not embedded.
Chris Maunder wrote: then 100 apps each at 100Mb
I don't even have one app that comes close to 100 MB. I guess I'm doing it wrong.
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RyanDev wrote: But I wonder if the OS will consider the maps to be data and leave them behind
I'm sure everything would be backed up to iCloud. For a small administrative fee, of course.
RyanDev wrote: I don't even have one app that comes close to 100 MB
You're lucky. Over half my apps are over 100Mb. Just getting over that line are things like The Weather Network App (seriously: it just needs to display info from a webservice!) and our local parking meter app. 101Mb to pay for my parking. Crazy considering Outlook is "merely" 106Mb.
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Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I'm sure everything would be backed up to shared into the iCloud. For a small administrative feeDue to the next security leak / hack, of course.
FTFY
M.D.V. 
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RyanDev wrote: Why is storage space still an issue in 2017?
It's only an issue when your phone doesn't have a MicroSD slot.
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dandy72 wrote: It's only an issue when your phone doesn't have a MicroSD slot.
Is that one of those items iPhones leave out?
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My understanding (as someone who's never owned one, and never will) is that yes, not a single iPhone has ever included a MicroSD slot. Meaning that if you're afraid you're gonna run out of room one day, you're gonna spend more upfront to get the larger-capacity one.
It's a feature. For Apple.
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dandy72 wrote: It's a feature. For Apple.
And people complain about how Microsoft treats them.  Interesting.
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RyanDev wrote: And people complain about how Microsoft treats them.
Like continuing to push out new Windows Phone updates regularly, even though the platform has long been declared dead? Whereas you'll be lucky to get one OS update throughout an Android device's lifetime?
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Ya, like that.
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dandy72 wrote: Whereas you'll be lucky to get one OS update throughout an Android device's lifetime?
My wife has already got three upgrade invitations for her Samsung A3 (to be fair 1 was just security patches)
M.D.V.
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Compare and contrast...
My Lumia 640 phone came with Windows 8.1. It got upgraded to 10, and to this day I can still install Insider updates on an almost weekly basis if so I choose.
My cheap-ass HP Stream 7 tablet came with 8.0 (I think), and again, was trivial to update to 8.1, then 10, then to all releases of Windows 10 that came between that and the Creators Update from last March.
My first-gen Surface Pro tablet is also now on Creators Update.
Now for the fun part:
I have 4 Android tablets; an ancient one that came with Android 2.2, another that came with 4.2, another that came with 4.3, and finally, another with 6.0. Only the one that came with 4.3 had an upgrade to 4.4 (which in hindsight was pretty minor), and that's it. More often than not, I can't install apps anywhere because "...your device is not compatible with this version of Android".
In my experience, Android tablets are pretty much abandonware the moment you walk out the store, and based on stories I keep reading about carriers not making OS updates available, Android phones aren't doing any better. I'm hoping I'm not ever going to be foolish enough to believe I could buy another Android device and assume it's one day going to be upgradable.
Oh, and Cyanogen is pretty much dead at this point.
Wanna buy some Android tablets? All barely used, all in great condition.
Does this answer your " "?
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Because an iPhone with 128 Gb costs way more than 16 Gb, so you are focusing it wrong. It is not a technical question, it is economical.
Coming back to the feature... I find it a bad feature if you can't set a "don't touch this ever" list. Only because I don't use something that much doesn't mean it is not important when I do need it.
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: Only because I don't use something that much doesn't mean it is not important when I do need it.
I could have read it wrong but it does look like you can enable the feature per app if you want to.
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For security it should be the other way around... I actively mark my expendable ones.
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Thanks Microsoft.
I have a project with some long running tests. I wanted to exclude these from normal Unit testing, but include them in integration testing.
I set up a new Build Configuration for Integration testing, and excluded projects containing these long running tests from building under the Debug configuration.
You would think, wouldn't you, that tests for a project excluded from a build would not be run...
No such luck.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Let in or let on. (5)
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ADMIT - To let in.
ADMIT - To reveal or "let on"
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Too easy...
All yours for tomorrow.
Cheers,
Peter
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