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

On Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:22:30 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :

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.

 
Also read this:
<https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/9836188988049-Audio-Jack-3-5mm>
"Fairphone 4 is already thick by industry standard because modular
design makes our phone bigger than average. Modularity allows users to
repair their phone easily and keep it for as long as possible. Including
the headphone jack would have made the phone longer and thicker. We also
know from consumer feedback that smaller dimensions are very important
for handling and ergonomics."

I am an adult who thinks logically and sensibly so I appreciate that you
bring up an article written by Fairphone who has a marketing team also.

What we have to realize is that what any company's marketing team "claims"
is the reason they did something, may or may not actually be the reason.

I don't know anything about Fairphone, but I do know that they're not "big"
like Apple/Samsung/Google so I can "assume" they don't have the access to
the wondrously huge (and expensive) design teams that the big boys have.

So, everything else being equal, a Fairphone is just gonna be fat.
Make it easily user-serviceable, and it's just gonna be even fatter.

However, it's likely *still* fat, is it not?
(If it's not fat, please let me know as I'm only working on logic here.)

So if it's *still fat*, then we can begin a logical argument that it's
merely an excuse that they removed the jack because they need it to be
thin.

Of course, logically, you could rebut that it would have been "even
fatter", where this 'fatness' argument requires more knowledge about the
marketing tricks of Fairphone than I happen to want to delve into now.

But I know, that you will say, that Fairphone is also just wants to make
a lot money and their offering of spare parts to be able to repair a
phone without expensive tools is just there to distract customers from
the real reasons:
<https://shop.fairphone.com/spare-parts>

Unlike Apple trolls, I am an adult who thinks logically and sensibly so I
appreciate that you bring up an article written by Fairphone themselves.

What we have to realize is that what any company's marketing team "claims"
is the reason they did something, may or may not actually be that reason.

Certainly Apple plays this game of claiming something as the *prime*
reason, when it's logically shown quite sensibly it's NOT the prime reason.

For example, Apple may claim they put crappy batteries in the iPhone
because they want the iPhone to be slimmer but that's not the prime reason.

Apple may claim that they didn't put an sd slot in the iPHone for similar
reasons, but again, it's not the prime reason - and nobody believes it is.

Apple may claim they wanted to be "green" by making everyone buy their own
separate correct charger for the phone, but no adult believes that lie.

More to the point, Apple may claim that the prime reason they removed the
perfectly functional jack was simply because Apple wanted to be courageous.

Fancy that.

Apple removed the jack for the prime reason that it was "courageous".
Apple gave other reason than that.

Does anyone seriously believe Apple MARKTING was telling the truth?