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

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:46:53 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :

Nope. Vastly inferior? Nope. It is simply a design choice. You like it
or not. It can be important to you or not. You make a list of things
that you absolutely need in a phone, another of things you would like,
and then make your choice of phone amongst those on the market.
 
There are no absolutes; what to you maybe very important to another
person is pointless.

Hi Carlos, (a kinder gentler me, but still always logical & sensible)

You make your own choices. As do I. As does everyone else.
The only thing I ask of people is to "think" of why they made that choice.

I understand that your opinion is that a phone that is designed to limit
your options is just a "design choice" and I won't disagree with that.

If a person chooses the Samsung ecosystem, they have that choice.

The high-end (read, "expensive") phones have "design choices" of removal of
industry standard basic hardware, which are designed to limit your options,
but, a purchaser of a $1K phone can easily purchase back the lost
functionality (some of it, of course, as it's impossible to get all back).

a. charger (in the box)
b. aux jack (on the device)
c. sd slot (in the device)

Yet, the low-end (read, "less expensive") phones still have the basic
hardware "design choices" of the aux jack, sd slot and huge batteries.

Hence, as you aptly noted, if someone wants to buy into the Samsung
ecosystem, they have a choice to buy the expensive Samsung models which
limit their options (but which they can pay their way out of the box,
mostly, but not completely) or, they can buy the less-expensive phones
which already have all the basic hardware functionality built in.

Do you agree with my agreement with your assessment of "design choices"?
a. It's your choice to choose a phone with basic functional hardware,
b. Or not.