Re: A good thing or a bad thing (Was: Tutorial: Working example of removing & re-installing Android system apps from a PC)

On 4/2/25 1:28 AM, Peter wrote:

Isaac Montara <IsaacMontara@nospam.com> wrote:
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Both Apple & Google don't want you to have inexpensive reliable storage.
Can you guess why?

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ooooh ooooh oooh (raises hand and flags down the professor)...
Let me guess.
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Apple gives you 5GB of "free" cloud storage for your 256GB device, which
means you have to multiply that 5GB by about 50 times to store your stuff.

If you want to expand your storage about 200GB, both Apple & Google will
charge you the same low low incredibly low (act fast!) monthly fee of only
a mere pittance of $2.99 per month, which is about $36 for a year (which,
incidentally, is about how much any similar sized sd card would have cost).

I pay Google 2 bucks/mo US for 1GB. Not a big $$$ deal for me. YMMV. I use
 it for off site backup (like if the house burns down) and it is also
 conveniently available to any of my devices pretty much anywhere if wanted
 or needed. A card just wouldn't provide the same service or use, although I
 do keep one locally in case Google burns down.

But then you need that storage for ten years (or whatever), so now that
one-time NRE of ~$36 would have saved you ~$360 dollars paying for storage.

Since both Apple & Google benefit to the tune of a few hundred dollars per
each person who owns their devices has to pay them, it makes sense why they
don't spend the couple of bucks it would cost for them to put an sdslot in.

Most all the Google Android devices I've owned over the years were made by
 somebody else. And they made the SD slot decision, not Google. An example
 would be this Chrome OS tablet I'm posting with made by Lenovo. It has no
 SD slot and the culprit is...yup...Lenovo...