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

On 2025-06-21 15:35, Your Name wrote:

On 2025-06-21 18:33:11 +0000, R.Wieser said:

Marion,
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a phone without the jack can replace some of the missing
functionality is true.

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(1)
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A pickup without the tow hitch can replace the missing functionality
too.

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(2)
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The fact is a pickup without the tow hitch has to find 'another way'
(perhaps even a better 'another way') to replace the lost functionality.
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Which is true.

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Nope, its false (3)
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(1,2,3) Something something premisse.
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The only logically meaningful comparison is if
the truck without the tow hitch could do something which
the truck without the tow hitch can't do.

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A "logically meaningful comparison" you say ?   Really ?  I only see nonsense.

 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.
 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.  :-)

Also for trucks, towing is usually a requirement and you cannot do so WITHOUT a tow hitch. There is no alternative to having a hitch.
Although, if you want to be precise, most trucks have RECEIVERS which allow the owner to buy a variety of different hitches (balls of different sizes and other options like rings)...
...so it's like truck manufacturers realized they should give buyers a "device" that allows for multiple options using a common interface.
:-)

  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). BUT many young people are reportedly returning to using wired earphones due to reasons like not having to be separately recharged and being cheaper to buy, so the audio jack *might* eventually make a return too, if "enough" people wanted it.
 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.

For the smartphone the requirement is "listening to audio from the phone"; be it calls, music, podcasts.
And a phone without an 1/8" aux jack can still fulfill that requirement.