Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot? Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:39:35 +0200 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <102mrt3$18oa$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <102n0nd$11tpt$1@dont-email.me> <102n1oc$17n1$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <102oj6s$41r$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <102okpi$1h1od$1@dont-email.me> <102qiul$hgm$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net WIlpThg+Aj0qVhDtK7sOOg/seeiyiIF9Ois7jsUkimxe5QzOs/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:DABWHmJf/TcuVNAOabp7xik9YdI= sha256:GaRsUJTL+ClT6WhOeI96+Ef0hAD4gHbNok9KxgMlHxE= Content-Language: en-US, de-DE In-Reply-To: <102qiul$hgm$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Xref: csiph.com misc.phone.mobile.iphone:195727 comp.mobile.android:149005 Marion, 2025-06-17 04:12: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:31:36 +0200, R.Wieser wrote : > > >>> The difference matters. >> >> And you *still* haven't mentioned which usage you are ranting about. > > A phone without the sd card is always an inferior phone to one with it (all > else being equal) because sd cards do things which are impossible to do any > other way (even with the cloud). Only if the internal storage is not enough. > Why do you think Apple/Google promote phones w/o the sd card slot? > They're not stupid. Yes, they want to save money. And yes, not having the need to add an SD card slot and all the needed parts for it (driver in the chipset, wiring etc.) to *millions* of devices saves a *lot* of money. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de