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

On 2025-06-22 00:49, Your Name wrote:

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.

Except, you can't know what they would have charged had they kept the charger in place...
...and because USB-C is an open standard, Apple (or any other smartphone maker) is in now way guaranteed that you'll buy those other things from them

 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.

Or you bought a Zip drive, which was 70 times more useful!
Or you used the internet to transfer. :-)
Seriously, I was selling Macs when the iMac dropped and most didn't go out the door with an external floppy.