Apple is reportedly dropping the 16GB option for iPhones when the “iPhone 6s” is released this September, according to sources with Made In China Gadget (MICGadget). The base “iPhone 6s” model will start at 32GB of internal storage. MICGadget’s unnamed sources — who work for Apple’s Taiwan-based manufacturing partner Foxconn — said that the packaging for the “iPhone 6s” and “iPhone 6s Plus” do not have stickers that say “16GB.”
“We can’t tell you department we received information , but we can that the packaging of the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus have with ’16GB capacity,'” wrote Chan Zhuang of MICGadget. Apparently, the stickers on the packages say: 32GB, 64GB and 128GB.
This is not the first time that Apple was rumored to be dropping the 16GB storage capacity option for the “iPhone 6s.” Last month, The Korea Times reported that Apple is negotiating a higher capacity memory deal with Samsung for the “iPhone 6s” and “iPhone 6s Plus” smartphones. The Apple iPhone 6 uses NAND chips that are supplied by Toshiba (50%), SanDisk (20%) and SK hynix (30%), according to Credit Suisse. The reason why Samsung was not selected as a memory supplier for the Apple iPhone 6 is because of its high prices.
The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices sell with storage capacities of 16GB, 64GB and 128GB. Unfortunately, iOS 8 consumes about 20% of the 16GB iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. This means that less than 13GB is available for music, movies, photos and apps. Samsung’s flagship smartphones also usually shipped with 16GB of internal memory, but it supported microSD cards with up to 128GB of additional storage. However, Samsung decided to avoid microSD card support for the new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge devices. The storage capacity of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge starts at 32GB — which is another reason why it seems likely that Apple will push for higher base storage capacities.
When John Gruber of Daring Fireball asked Apple Senior Vice President of Marketing Phil Schiller why new iPhones do not have higher storage capacities, he said that iCloud makes up for it. “The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music, that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don’t need lots of local storage because these services are lightening the load,” said Schiller during the interview. 

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