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

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 22:37:04 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :

Most of us have entire boxes of 5-Watt chargers; did you throw yours away?

 
Exactly.

The main point on the loss of portable storage, the removal of the aux
jack, and the removal of the correct battery charger is that Apple starts
all these decidedly customer unfriendly actions & the others follow.

Apple only innovates in "courageous" removal of basic functionality.

In fact, Apple is really good at removing functionality from a phone.
  a. The iPhone starts out dumb
  b. And only gets dumber over time

Unfortunately, Samsung closely follows Apple's lead.
I'm not sure about Google's Pixel as I don't keep up on it.

BTW, I used to wire the 68701 and program the EEPROM, mentally, in hex.