Really skeptical of this feature. Could this be the overprovision space designed to improve longevity of the flash media? In that case, reclaiming the storage shortens the life of the device in exchange for increased capacity.
Of course, device sizes being what they are, that's not a good trade.
Or they could have just added a SD card slot for an extra 1TB storage
Now that would be innovative. There are probably kids today who have never seen a phone with expandable storage or removable batteries.
Because many only have seen Apples ~~scam~~ devices and nothing else.
So 3% more storage space in exchange of a slower, less reliable storage device. Thanks no.
I'm surprised compression isn't a thing, like Stacker/DoubleSpace back in the DOS PC days. Even with mostly efficient data, I could imagine eking out 5% more capacity at the cost of lowered performance on disc-intensive tasks
I would guess it is probably mostly not worth the overhead at this point. Applications are generally compressed archives. The primary data created on mobile devices would be photos and videos, both of which use lossy compression algorithms to generate and wouldn't compress any smaller. The remaining data that may be created on a phone like documents, PDFs, text files, would either already be semi-compressed, or so tiny in the grand scheme that the compression overhead wouldn't buy much value.
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