Apple Watch Will Have 8 GB of Storage, But With Significant Restrictions

Apple does not allow to have 8 GB free: 2 GB for music, 75 MB for photos. They are confirming all the details about the Apple Watch that the company was not able to uncover leveraging the keynote yesterday. Although we have already solved the mystery of the total battery life and water resistance, still did not know what we would find storage in the Apple Watch would. Well, we know, will be 8 GB, but careful because there are important limitations.

Source engadget

Apple does not allow users to have those 8 GB freely and no, we mean the space logically occupies the system, but the rest of free gigs. The internal space will be distributed according to the type of content, eg for music can allocate up to 2 GB, the equivalent of about 200 songs of great quality. So no, it seems that the Apple Watch will not be a worthy successor to the iPod in this regard.

Of course, if we synchronized our Apple Watch and iPhone can access your entire music library that we have on the phone, so these 2 GB only come into play if we, for example, go for a run with clock and power iPhone ever leaving our home while listening to music.

As for storage of photographs, Apple only allow A maximum of 75 MB, about enough to just over 100 pictures space. This limitation is explained through the prism of the smartwatch is only intended to store our favorite shots. Since then, display pictures on the small screen of Apple Watch is one of the least practical uses that come to mind for the device.

The three collections Apple Watch will have the same internal storage

The three -Sport, Watch and Edition- collections have the same capacity, so in this sense there will be any difference between them. Obviously, if we discount these 2,075 GB plus the space occupied by the system, we are just over 5 GB of free storage, why should it be used?

Considering that for the moment no native applications for Apple Watch allowed, so these are not stored on the clock but in our iPhone, imagine that will be used to store the cache of apps allow -we execute without iPhone- synchronizing with and maintain a reasonable clearance to ensure that the system maintains its performance and fluidity. What do you think these limitations? Do you think you are justified?

Via engadget