Flash storage might be the highest-margin component sold by Apple, so there's a ...

ianlevesque · on July 7, 2018

That seems a little tinfoil hat considering the largest consumer use of storage is photos & video, neither of which compress any more anyway.

glhaynes · on July 7, 2018

And that Apple is heavily pushing the HEIF/HEVC formats in ways that provide similar image quality with lower storage uses.

walterbell · on July 7, 2018

This is a macOS thread, but it would be helpful if Apple allows micro SD cards to be connected to the lightning port of iOS devices.

Mister_Snuggles · on July 7, 2018

Like this[0]?

I have no idea how well it works or what its capabilities are, but it seems to be exactly what you are looking for.

[0] https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MJYT2AM/A/lightning-to...

walterbell · on July 7, 2018

That is mostly limited to copying photos and videos to/from the "Photo Roll".

There are many thousands of applications which process other file formats. Some of them have natively implemented support for a 3rd-party (expensive) storage device called iXpand, which itself comes with a poorly implemented app. These third-party applications are poorly and pointlessly (re) implementing basic OS file system I/O functions.

Is it possible that these pointless I/O hoops are hampering uptake of $1000 iPad Pros for "laptop" use cases?

walterbell · on July 7, 2018

Macbook Pros have use cases which extend well beyond photos & video.