I’ve only ever been on a flight once where Wifi was offered (And it didn’t work on the return journey) It’s not offered on many short haul flights in Europe. And long haul flights sometimes charge an extreme amount for wifi And again reliability not that good.
how could an iPhone without storage work? They has to be capacity for it to function when data or wifi is not available otherwise many uses of it will seize. I mean without storage no taking photos where no signal is available and no listening to music when the wifi breaks down and you can’t afford or can’t access data (Relatives of mine live in a house where phone signals are only avaliable at the edges.) My wifi broke a couple of years ago for nearly 48 hours. I used my iPod a lot at that point. Pretty expensive to stream music via data for 20 hours. So without storage what would I be expected to do?
Based on all your responses about wifi it kinda feels like you don’t realize you can download as much music either from iTunes or from Apple Music as you want to an iPhone. It’s not like you’re being forced to stream your music over the internet. iPhones can work exactly like iPods do.
Most domestic flights in the US seem to have WiFi available for a fee, but many of them allow access to Apple Music for free. (I usually fly American, mostly because it serves my common destinations, and they definitely use this set up on their flights, at least the ones that aren’t conducted by their American Eagle subsidiary.) Maybe the shortest short haul flights don’t, but I don’t remember from the last time I did one earlier this year.
Is it rare? How many people can afford constantly streaming music via data or paying for WIFi in the many public places it’s not free. I am sure they are many times people use music on iPod‘s offline. Surely lots of people save Music and podcasts to avoid paying for data and to listen to when internet access is not certain or not possible. Now roming charges are coming back accessing data outside the UK is increasingly even more expensive.
I live in the UK. I’ve never seen a flight advertising Apple Music being available. I’ve only been on one trip where the flight was advertised to have wifi. It worked going out but coming back it didn’t work for some reason.
Mostly seems to be an American thing (maybe even specifically American, if you see what I did there
). It’s kinda funny because US domestic flight stinks in its own ways (legroom, for one, quality of business class and first class [or so I’ve been told] for another), but I guess we do have a couple of advantages vs European (or at least, UK) air travel.
But if you’re using downloaded music anyway, how is an iPod better? Any recent iPhone model has storage options well beyond where an iPod maxes out.
Have you seen the prices of those. I mean £700 iPhone are only having a 128gb storage which with apps would not give me any where near as much music storage as my current 64gb iPod has. Amazon are selling 128gb iPod for £278. To get a phone with that much storage on is many times more in price. Am I misunderstanding something. As otherwise I cannot see how this is value for money at all? Apple are pricing people out of the market.
What model of iPhone is that? I'm not in the UK, so I don't know where to look for things specific to you, but in the US I can buy a used but in new condition 512GB iPhone 11 Pro or 256GB iPhone 12 for $600, or a 256GB 11 Pro in the mid $400s, or even a 256GB iPhone 11 (non-Pro) for under $400. Those are all still great phones, and the prices are in line with similar storage levels on a new iPod Touch. And then factor in that you don't have to buy a separate phone on top of that. I looked back home in NZ too and while the prices are a little different, the trend is pretty similar.
It’s still second hand. Not really something I want to do. I can’t find a new iPhone with storage more than 128gb for anything near what I wish to spend. I can for an iPod.
