The new iPhone 5C is a really bad buy
Imagine. Youre buying something exciting and expensive. The sales person makes you an offer. You can have 1/8 off the sticker price if you agree to just one thing: from time to time, the sales person would come round to your house and punch you in the face. The new iPhones and iPads are a bit like that. Apple has made the iPhone 5C cheaper and its brought the iPad 4 back from the dead, and in both cases its selling them with lower amounts of storage: 16GB in the case of the cheapest iPad and just 8GB in the lowest-cost iPhone 5C . 8GB ? My email signatures bigger than that. Size matters Okay, not really. But despite my best efforts to export my photos and videos, my ruthless culling of infrequently used apps, my diligent deletion of read messages and mail and my streaming from iTunes Match and Spotify, Ive still got 23GB of stuff on my iPhone and even more on my iPad. If youre reading this, youre clearly into tech. Youre an HD-shooting, app-using, downloading-for-offli...