Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AJL Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: A good thing or a bad thing (Was: Tutorial: Working example of removing & re-installing Android system apps from a PC) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 15:26:38 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <7u5lblxjel.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:26:38 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7c1117d69f7b9fd6bfb849859cbdf028"; logging-data="2284475"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+PlW922dTx3q4POWdhoYAE" User-Agent: PhoNews/3.13.3 (Android/13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kClo11yTOuRVMdj5jtWBdgo6BHI= In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:147511 On 4/2/25 1:28 AM, Peter wrote: >Isaac Montara wrote: > >> Both Apple & Google don't want you to have inexpensive reliable storage. >> Can you guess why? > >ooooh ooooh oooh (raises hand and flags down the professor)... >Let me guess. > >Apple gives you 5GB of "free" cloud storage for your 256GB device, which >means you have to multiply that 5GB by about 50 times to store your stuff. >If you want to expand your storage about 200GB, both Apple & Google will >charge you the same low low incredibly low (act fast!) monthly fee of only >a mere pittance of $2.99 per month, which is about $36 for a year (which, >incidentally, is about how much any similar sized sd card would have cost). I pay Google 2 bucks/mo US for 1GB. Not a big $$$ deal for me. YMMV. I use it for off site backup (like if the house burns down) and it is also conveniently available to any of my devices pretty much anywhere if wanted or needed. A card just wouldn't provide the same service or use, although I do keep one locally in case Google burns down. >But then you need that storage for ten years (or whatever), so now that >one-time NRE of ~$36 would have saved you ~$360 dollars paying for storage. >Since both Apple & Google benefit to the tune of a few hundred dollars per >each person who owns their devices has to pay them, it makes sense why they >don't spend the couple of bucks it would cost for them to put an sdslot in. Most all the Google Android devices I've owned over the years were made by somebody else. And they made the SD slot decision, not Google. An example would be this Chrome OS tablet I'm posting with made by Lenovo. It has no SD slot and the culprit is...yup...Lenovo...