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

Marion,

Anyway... with that in mind, I understand that internal storage
is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from portable storage. Almost nothing in
common.

now you only have to tell us which one is which.  Oh wait, that was what I
asked in my first post in his thread, which you never responded to and
thruout this thread kept vague about.

And to play "childish games", if the memory is in my phone and I can carry
my phone around, doesn't that mean that *both* are portable ?

I could in the same way reason that *both* are internal to the phone - and
not, as my thumbdrive, external.

... but as always you will refuse to clarify your point/claim/whatever.

If I ever disagree with a logically sensible viewpoint, then shoot me.

Than consider yourself being shot - as refusing to even acknowledge such
viewpoints is what you do with *every* bit of information that does not
match with your convictions.

where my assessments are always based on the facts.

bullshit.  You base your "facts" on mindreading, or on "because I say so".
You and facts are definitily no friends.

Nobody but a fool would disagree with that sentiment.
And I'm no fool.

Yes you are, and you are again playing stupid games.

We'd have to ask "how much less reliable" (as in, "does it matter?").

Well, ask that of a (grand)parent who sees his (grand)chidrens photos
disappear because the sd-card became "unreliable"

Ask that of anyone who installed an, important to him, app or generated data
that disappeared and he can't find back.

And we'd have to ask "how much slower" (as in, "is it unusable").

That fully depends on how you define "usable". IOW, currently its a
meaningless question.

But I would never disagree with anyone who says internal storage is
more reliable and faster than portable storage.

That again depends on what you define "internal storage" and "portable
storage" as.  Like is my thumbdrive internal or portable storage ?

And you have just agreed to that your sd-card is inferior to "internal
storage".  But for some reason you still demand that "less reliable" and
"much slower" sd card to have a place in your phone.

You are free to demand that - but not on *my* dime.  IOW, go pester the
manufacturers.  You just have to accept that your (one off?) version of the
phone you want will be a "bit" more expensive.  For reasons already
explained to you or otherwise mentioned in this thread.

It's functionality that isn't there, that, in the case of Samsung
phones, used to almost always be there. Now it's gone in some
Samsung phones.

Yep.  Do you know that horse-whips have also pretty-much gone since the
arrival of the first Fort automobile ?

If the most erudite argument you can make against sd card slots is
that you don't like the adjectives I use to describe them, then you
have no argument.

As your adjectives have been bullshit all this time he *does* have the right
to reject them.  Just like I and a number of other people have done in this
thread.

... Just as you have the right to blitely ignore any such rejections and
keep posting the same "you have to agree with me!" song again-and-again.

I do NOT put my whatsapp videos on the sdcard, although now that
you mention it, I get videos every day, all day of the new great
grandchild.

And there you're again flip-flopping from one kind of usage for an sd-card
in a phone to the other.   And ofcourse nobody notices it, as you are
*soooo* smooth about it. :-)

So I should think about porting my WhatsApp "media" folder to portable
storage, where the *simplest* port is a simply copy from sd0 to sd1.

And you are again blithely ignorant that only works while both are in your
phone.

Notice that this has NO impact whatsoever on WhatsApp speed, right?

... and blithely ignorant that WhatsApp is most likely the throtteling
factor.

(It might even make WhatsApp faster for all I know - but not slower.)

How would you know either ?   All of your claims are hollow and worthless,
as you refuse to even explain how you came to them.

So why do you think they remofved it in the expensive phones?
You must answer that question becuase it's a fact they removed
it.

And there we have the next run of the mary-go-round again...

You have already gotten that answer form several people, all of which you
refused to respond to.

Insanity : doing the same thing again and again while expecting different
results.

You are not out here for answers (you already have them), you are looking
for yes-men.   :-(

Be logical please.
Be sensible.

Don't ask what you refuse/are unable to give yourself.  Hypocritical and all
that.

They know you have to buy back all that functionality they took away.

No, we don't.

Which is why they do it.

Ah yes, your famous mind-reading.   Humans cannot do that, so from which
solar system are you ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser