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

On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:50:05 +1200, Your Name wrote :

Whatever Apple does, the Android makers all eventually follow. Samsung
is especially bad at making fun of Apple for doing something (removing
headphone jack, not including the charger, etc.), only for Samsung to
then copy the exact same thing in their next model release.  :-\

I'll agree with anyone who makes a logically sensible argument, where I
agree with Your Name that Samsung poked fun very publicly at Apple when
Apple removed basic functionalitiy so that people had to buy it back.

And then Samsung (on some models) *copied* Apple's strategy exactly!
Just as Your Name said.

However... there *is* a difference...

a. Apple offers no model that has the basic functionality of the jack
b. Samsung does

Specifically, on *expensive* models, Samsung removed the jack.

Paradoxically, that's because people who buy expensive phones can afford to
buy back (some of) the lost functionality of the missing standard jack.

Of course, it's *impossible* to buy all of the functionality back.
Which is why Samsung offers the jack in the lower-priced models.

If Apple supposedly has no innovation, what does that imply for all the
lazy copy-cat Android makers??

Ummm... er... uh... Removing basic functionality is not innovation.