Am I the only one not worried about storage space?

[Ntropy99]

Gotta say, I don't see ecthroi imposing his opinion on anyone. Just stating it, and then having to defend it way too much. I see a lot of "I want, I want, I want" throughout this post. I am on Verizon, they have one phone. I want to buy my wife a new phone, preferably a WP one, and have options. I want a phone with 64GB. I want an 8 Meg camera. I want it to have instantaneous download and the battery to last as long as I need it without charging it. I want the phone to be able to send documents from email, not from the pulling up the document and then sending. I wanted the "Storm 3" from BB 12 months before they released it. I want everything now, and that doesn't happen. Progress will give us the phones we want, so that when they come out we will want something past that and they won't be good enough either. Buy the phone for the features it has, live with them until you are ready to buy the next great thing that you can't live with out.
And BTW, I don't really need any of things I want. 16Gb right now is just fine!

 

[bpgui]

Telling us what we need or don't need and calling us greedy for wanting options that are provided by other OSes is pretty much a textbook definition of trying to impose his opinion on us.

 

[threed61]

I believe Ethcroi was trying to have a little fun and lighten things up on a frustrating subject, a point that went way over my head too. ntropy99, patience is indeed the best practice when dealing with Verizon! Lets not forget to have fun here once in a while.

 

[Pronk]

Thing is, it's not so much "I want", which would be greedy, as "I want to *buy*", which is very different. There's no greed here because for the most part we all pay for our devices - just a desire for parity with the other main mobile formats for roughly the same money spent.

To be honest it doesn't even bother me - I have an 8GB phone and it's only just about half full. But I still recognise if you have a customer base you want to encourage to make full use of their smartphones, buying apps and music and videos, it's ridiculous to then limit how much storage they can have onboard on almost all the phones on that platform. There isn't a single top-end WP7 phone bar the IS12T with more than 16GB. Not one. You can get iPhones up to 64GB, and even low, low end Android handsets have expandable memory.

MS want WP7 to be the third platform and take market share from iOS and Android. Noble aims, but you don't catch up by going more slowly and offering less for the same money.