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In 2011, I predicted that the iPhone would have 1TB of storage in 2020
Someone reminded me of a prediction I made in 2011:
Your iPhone will have 1TB of storage by 2020, assuming exponential growth, see my plot: [http://t.co/iDiT1J7y](http://t.co/iDiT1J7y)
— Daniel Lemire (@lemire) November 18, 2011
At the time, an iPhone could hold at most 32 GB of data, so 1 TB sounded insane.
Unfortunately, Google Plus is no more so you cannot see the plot showing my projection and I lost it as well. Yet we can build a table:
2010 iPhone 4 32 GB 2012 iPhone 5 64 GB 2014 iPhone 6 128 GB 2016 iPhone 7 256 GB 2018 iPhone XS 512 GB 2019 iPhone 11 Pro 512 GB 2020 iPhone 12 Pro 512 GB How did my prediction fare ? I got it wrong, of course, but I think it was remarkably prescient. It seems obvious that Apple could have gone with 1 TB but chose not to. The Samsun Galaxy S10+ comes with 1 TB of storage.
Some analysts predict that the iPhone 13 might have 1 TB of storage.