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My wife has a 16Gb iPad mini retina. It had 5G free on it. It really depends what you do. 16Gb is probably enough for most people.

My kids though had about 50Mb free each.

It actually needs 2.5 GB to install (it won't use it after the installation, obviously).

With my 2.1 GB of unused space I had no issue installing this update. It's a delta update so the size will vary. Mine requested about 200 some MB if I'm not mistaken.

Not sure that would be baffling - that's the model everyone I know has (including myself).

Sorry for being confusing - I don't disagree it's popular model. What I don't understand is why Apple's baseline model has 16GB. It seems like flash memory can be had very cheaply - Amazon shows several examples of 64GB MicroSD cards for ~ $25.

It would seem like starting their base model at 64GB would be very consumer-friendly, and have a very low cost.

You can obviously update from iTunes, without any such constraint.

I only needed to have 1.9GB of free space on my iPhone 5.