[JadeNB]

> What usually happens with these phones is they have something like 8GB or even 16GB, but they are poorly paritioned. It could be something like 5-6GB for /system (the OS) and they somehow only leave 2GB for the /data partition.

Oh, so you read bigbugbag's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15049992)

> > wow those people are lucky and high on consumerism, my phone had 2GB.

as saying that it's 2 GB after the system installation? That seems to make it a strange response to itg's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15049947)

> > > Considering how may people still have 8GB/16GB phones, I doubt it. On iOS sometimes you have to delete apps, especially ones that build up large caches like Facebook.

which is clearly referring to the pre-OS available space.