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

Marion, 2025-06-28 01:59:

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:37:04 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :
 
 

Most of us have entire boxes of 5-Watt chargers; did you throw yours away?

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Exactly.

 
The main point on the loss of portable storage, the removal of the aux
jack, and the removal of the correct battery charger is that Apple starts
all these decidedly customer unfriendly actions & the others follow.

Disclaimer: I don't use any Apple devices except an iPhone SE which was
given to me by my employer. Personally I prefer Android devices and x86
based laptops and PCs for my work.

Well - seems other manufacturers see some of Apples decisions as
important. Apple also once invented the Macintosh in 1984 and Digital
Reasearch and Microsoft followed in creating their own operating systems
using a graphical user interface with a pointing device because they
became aware that a pure text based system like CP/M or MS-DOS is not
what people would like to use in the future.

Apple was also the first inventing a smartphone with *capacitive*
touchscreen supporting input using your fingers only including multi
touch capabilities. Yes, Android follwed soon and devices like the IBM
Simon and Nokia Communicator existed many years before that - but Apple
were the first with a mobile device with touch screen that worked like
the iPhone without the need for a stylus.

Apple only innovates in "courageous" removal of basic functionality.
 
In fact, Apple is really good at removing functionality from a phone.
  a. The iPhone starts out dumb
  b. And only gets dumber over time

I don't see any proof of that. iPhones never had an internal SD card
slot anyway, so removing the more than 100 year old aux jack was the
only removal of basic functionality there. On the other hand they added
a pretty useful 3D scanner for face unlock - a feature you still can't
find in Android phones. The "face unlock" provided with some Android
phones is a joke since only the two dimensional *picture* of the owner
is enough.

Unfortunately, Samsung closely follows Apple's lead.
I'm not sure about Google's Pixel as I don't keep up on it.

Google Pixel also removed the aux jack - even Fairphone did this,
starting with the Fairphone 4. And Fairphone is defnitely not a company
which wants to sell customers a new phone every year.

BTW, I used to wire the 68701 and program the EEPROM, mentally, in hex.

I published my first software at the age of 16 when 8-bit home computers
like the VIC-20, C64 or Atari 400/800 XL were still a thing:

<https://arnowelzel.de/en/about-me/my-computer-story>

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