Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:49:13 +1200, Your Name wrote :

me ways they are gouging the customers who still want / need those
functions. They remove things from a device without lowering the price,
and then charge extra to get those same functions back again. No longer
including a charger is another recent example.

I will agree with anyone who makes a logically sensible statement, even if
that person has made illogical statements in the past, where not only did
Apple first remove the charger in the box, but remember what Apple said.

a. Apple said you already had chargers, and,
b. Apple said it was green to remove the charger.

However, two facts remain that put the lie to Apple's words:
A. You didn't have 20W (or higher) PD chargers at that time, and,
B. You had to buy a charger from somewhere - which isn't green.

People need to be intelligent to see through the lies.

It's not just mobile phones either. The original iMac dropped the
floppy disk drive and had no real replacement since USB thumb drives
being too expensive at the time. You had to buy an external floppy disk
drive (once they were available!) to be able to easily and cheaply
transfer files between computers.

Windows dropped some types of external drives, but not before they were no
longer relevant. Apple drops perfectly good working basic hardware.

An example is the industry standard sd slot is in most Android phones today
and the industry-standard aux jack is also in most phones last we checked.

The fact it's not in Apple iPhones is a "courageous" move by Apple
marketing to drop basic functionality so the customer has to buy it back.