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

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:23:40 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :
 

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.

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Disclaimer: I don't use any Apple devices except an iPhone SE which was
given to me by my employer. Personally I prefer Android devices and x86
based laptops and PCs for my work.
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Well - seems other manufacturers see some of Apples decisions as
important.

 Apple is, like other monopolies, all about MARKETING, which means Apple
takes the "courageous" risk of removing functionality to gauge whether
people will actually be forced to buy it back - or - drop Apple.
 Since people bought back what Marketing had removed (much of it from
Apple), Apple's profits increased. So Marketing was right after all.
 People *are* that dumb.
 Once Samsung found out that this marketing gimmick worked, Samsung did it
too; but Apple was the leader in testing out how dumb people really are.
 What's really happening is Apple is testing out the marketing tricks.
And, if they work - then companies like Samsung are glad to follow later.
 The customer always loses; but Apple/Samsung garner bigger profits.
 

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

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I don't see any proof of that. iPhones never had an internal SD card
slot anyway, so removing the more than 100 year old aux jack was the
only removal of basic functionality there.

 Hi Arno,
The fact that your argument has to be so absurd means you have no idea why
Apple "courageously" removed the most common basic piece of hardware.
 I've been hearing that same ridiculously absurd argument from Apple trolls
for years that Apple has to remove anything that has been working for a
while.
 It's just absurd your argument.
  The way you think, is easily shown to be unfathomably senseless.
Completely illogical.
 The fact you think something that works has to be removed just because it
has been working for a long time - is a problem - as it means you didn't
even think before you parroted what someone (Apple?) told you to parrot.
 

On the other hand they added
a pretty useful 3D scanner for face unlock - a feature you still can't
find in Android phones.

 It's interesting how much you love mere marketing gimmicks.
 

The "face unlock" provided with some Android
phones is a joke since only the two dimensional *picture* of the owner
is enough.

 The fact you think Apple's gimmick is better than Android's gimmick again
tells me that you don't think logically. Someone told you how to think.
 Apple perhaps?
 

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

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Google Pixel also removed the aux jack - even Fairphone did this,
starting with the Fairphone 4. And Fairphone is defnitely not a company
which wants to sell customers a new phone every year.

 There is only one reason to remove the aux jack.
And that reason is not that it has been working fine for a very long time.
 

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

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I published my first software at the age of 16 when 8-bit home computers
like the VIC-20, C64 or Atari 400/800 XL were still a thing:
<https://arnowelzel.de/en/about-me/my-computer-story>

 My first official peer-reviewed paper was published when I was about 20.
But I wasn't the principle author.