iOS 8 storage lawsuit claims that Apple’s so called 16GB storage is misleading

A lawsuit has been filed in California by two Miami based consumers who stated that the latest operating system iOS 8 from the tech giant, Apple, uses much of the flash storage on the device as compared to the storage advertised by Apple.

This lawsuit was filed in Cupertino on behalf of Paul Orshan and Christopher Endara who had bought iPhones and iPads having 16GB storage as advertised. But initially the said storage was less than the actual 16GB and after the update from iOS 7 to iOS 8, the storage further reduced.

Following is a list of table that depicts that how much storage is reduced for different Apple devices in terms of percentage.

Reasonable consumers do not expect this marked discrepancy between the advertised level of capacity and the available capacity of the devices, as the operating system and other storage space unavailable to consumers occupies an extraordinary percentage of their devices’ limited storage capacity.

Apple has remained quite over the issue for time being and is not opting to comment on the situation.

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Michael

The lawsuit is typical of people expecting money for nothing. Every computer, tablet and cell phone manufacturer list the memory on the device… but do not list the memory available after installing the operating system… Nor, as the lawsuit claim, does Apple force users to use the cloud system to store photos, anyone can back up using a computer, and once backed up they are free to delete the old photos.
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Why doesn’t Apple just say how much space the OS takes up? It’s not difficult to figure out the rest. Also, could they make it a little easier to figure out how much space a picture takes up? My wife is always struggling to figure out how big a photo she just took is. It should be a basic piece of data. I don’t mind buying a device with a small amount of storage (although it does seem pretty juvenile to not allow external storage like an SD car…..duh Apple, get with it). But, if you’re going to be public about the amount of storage, be as public about the storage that apps and pics take up. And make it simple, not so obtuse. Space is fundamental, not optional data. We want KB’s. MB’s, GB’s, etc. It’s really pretty simple. Now just fix it.