Large Updates for Small iPhones

It's pretty hilarious, or shall I say ridiculous, that the iOS 27 update is modest enough to demand nothing less than 20GB of disk space if you wanted to download it to your phone. May I bring to mind, dear Tim Apple and friends, that you once had iPhones in your product line that had a total of whopping 64GB in disk space (and users who still own phones such as these? Exactly right: yours, truly). According to ongoing calculations, 20GB is a little less than a third of that. To say the least, it's unrealistic to even imagine I could ever free up this much disk space in my phone's lifetime. I've realised a while ago—especially during my Digital Declutter—that for my purposes, I actually don't really need a new smartphone (Whatever for? These days I use my phone 1.5h per day on average). But then again, I do—just because sooner or later, I'll run out of fucking disk space. Even if I never updated to iOS 27. The low disk space question kicked off this whole series of Leaving iOS:…

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