[choward]

That's cool until you go to a place that doesn't have cell phone coverage or wifi. Then you are completely screwed.

[cheepin]

That's pretty niche though. Even in that scenario, you could always offload to external storage.

It seems reasonable that their phones are expected to mostly behave as phones, and not as a large photo/video repository.

[choward]

> That's pretty niche though.

Not really. Do you ever travel? Have you ever been on a road trip? Have you ever been on a plane? Have you ever gone camping?

[cheepin]

Yes, but I don't fill up my phone's storage during those activities.

The issue comes up if you use your phone solely as a camera without an accompanying connection for long enough to fill up internal storage without some way to offload it.

It's a situation that won't come up ever for most users of the phone, and as Wifi and Data coverage increases will become even more obscure.

[desas]

It's typical in Europe to go abroad on holiday so the only coverage is via expensive roaming - I usually take lots of photos on holiday and like to use my phone to play music in my room or by the pool. Hotel WiFi is often expensive.

It's especially a problem while cruising - onboard WiFi is slow and expensive, buying a sim per country wastes time.

[saiya-jin]

simply no. one example - in europe, there are still roaming charges. in mountains, there are still places with no internet at all (and it might surprise people like you, but no wifi either).