Ily, Gaming Historian 😍

You don’t have to understand people, my dear. Put your phone down, go outside, love the life you have.

People just looking for sky to yell at ;)

Every app can write anything to external storage this has existed for a while for the iPad and 3rd party apps.

Apple is making a cheaper, lower capacity option with the ability to add your own unrestricted storage and you complain about… nothing really.

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If you’re a professional shooting 4K 60 ProRes video you likely have the budget to upgrade the storage (or shoot with a real professional grade camera.) it’s highly unlikely you could have a good user experience with 128GB (minus the OS and all your other personal garbage) filling up in minutes shooting in this mode. The lower capacity models aren’t designed for those specific use cases in mind, and it’s cool they’ve found a way around that limitation through the use of external attached storage.

And even then the classic iPod never used lightning, just stuck with the 30 pin

This is a weirdly untrue comment. The iPod used FireWire for a couple generations before switching to 30 pin and never changing again throughout the rest of the history of the classic iPod form factor.

And a cable has nothing to do with why people buy or stick with an Apple or Google device. A switch to USB C would be better for everyone and Apple knows it (otherwise why switch the iPad to usb c? Why not put proprietary connectors on macs???)

Also? If Apple switched to USB C when it was invented AFTER Lightning, you’d be complaining even harder about how Apple keeps switching their ports to get you to buy more cables. Better late than never