In 1956, the IBM 350 became the first disk drive in the world. It was as big as a vending machine, it cost more than a house, and it could only store 3.75 megabytes – about the size of a single song in MP3 format. Today, 60 years later, a smartphone can hold several thousand times more data, yet fits in your jeans’ side pocket. Boy, has technology evolved!
Storage space, however, is one of those things our phones never seem to have enough of. They are burdened by heavy apps and offline music, by high-resolution photos and videos, all of which eat up precious gigs.
