Oh gawwwwd..., you must be a cutting edge geek or something! LOL...
I mean for the normal and average consumers, they’ll be saying it has a huge amount of storage space. For the geeks (as someone else said), it’s “never enough”.
One thing you’ve got to realize here is that with the iPods, the ones that have the flash memory have smaller storage. The iPods that have the larger storage are hard drives.
So, with the iPhone, it’s going with flash memory and thus it’s not going to have 80 Gigs of storage space, until the flash memory comes up to that size (and with prices that are affordable). They weren’t going to put in a hard drive in the iPhone, so that left the iPhone with about 8 Gigs for a maximum.
And as flash memory progresses and gets larger and is priced cheaper, you’ll see the larger sizes for storage in the iPhone — but — that’s not now. You’ll just have to wait.
But, for the several million people who wanted the iPhone — now — they got what they wanted and with something that is very usable (with regards to storage space) and they’re very happy. And that includes me... :-)
Regards,
Star Traveler
If you want to store several videos and your music library on your iPhone, 8 Gig is pretty small. If this thing is going to replace the iPod, your phone, and your Laptop, it is gonna need more than 8 Gig.