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

On 2025-06-22 06:51:09 +0000, R.Wieser said:

Your Name,

 Depending on the design of the "truck" and "tow hitch" (i.e. does the "tow hitch" stick out beyond the rear of the truck):
 - one without a "tow hitch" can back up closer to a wall / car
behind it than one with a "tow hitch".
 - one without a "tow hitch" can't hurt people walking behind
it, while one with a "tow hitch" can cause people to bang
their shins on it.

 The OP has already proven himself to be blind and deaf for any counter argument.
 

Almost any comparison (as well as survey, poll, and study) can be skewed to "prove" whatever someone wants it to "prove". In the end such comparisons are rather pointless.  :-)

 The OP hasn't figured out how to do that yet, his methods are still rather crude.
 

In terms of the mobile phone and audio jack, most people simply either never used it or were tired of trying to untangle the wires on the earphones, so it was removed form devices (first by Apple and then copy-catted by most other makers).

 I'm not sure if the above is what actually happened cause-and-effect wise, but its possible.
 

There were of course other reasons to remove the audio jack. One being the silliness to continually make mobile phones (and tablets)
ever thinner, not that anyone every really complained about modern cellphones being too thick.

 Similar considerations have been posted a few times now (including by me), but the OP refuses to respond to/discuss any of it.  He just *knows* its because "they" (all of the phone makers) are out to gouge him, and nobody can tell him otherwise.
 Regards,
Rudy Wieser

In some 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.
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.
Same happens in many other industries too.
It's called "the price of progress".  :-(