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

AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:

But now you're claiming you have to log into Google for Android to work?
Where did you get the idea that you have to sign into Google?

 
Most all of my Android devices have been that way.

Most of my Android devices have not only the sd card slot, but a card.
More relevant, 3/4 of today's Samsung phones have the standard slot.
 

Since you're a developer,

 
I'm not a developer.

Oh. My mistake. I apologize. But even so, I assume you knew you don't need
to log into Google for Android to work any more than you need to log into
the Colorado Time Server to get the time that is on my watch on my wrist.
 

you're well aware signing into Google is no more
necessary than signing into your bank account or signing into Samsung.

 
My bank account does require signing in.

If you're insisting that Android won't work without signing into Google,
then you should stop insisting that because nobody would say that.

My main point of contention is simply that a phone without the slot is an
inferior phone to one with the slot, all things being equal otherwise.

 
Kinda like a car is inferior to a pickup because it doesn't have the extra
 storage capacity?

No. If you think that, it means you don't have any idea what an sd slot is.

It's like having two cars - exactly the same in every way except one.
One has a trunk to store appreciable stuff. The other has no trunk.

The vehicle without the trunk is inferior given it can't do what the other
vehicle can do, while the other vehicle can do EVERYTHING the other can.

That over 75% of Samsung phones have the industry-standard slot tells you
that the leading Android maker considers that sdslot important to people.

 
Only if they keep selling. The market will eventually decide as it always
 does.

We really can't go further since you don't appear to know what an sd slot
does. You're not aware that it's impossible to gain that functionality.

You bought a functionally inferior product - and that's perfectly OK.

What you do is pay hundreds of dollars to get "some" of the missing
functionality back - and then you tell people that they should pay also.

In fact, you ridiculed the people who make smarter decisions than you do.

Why don't you just own up to the fact that you purchased a functionally
inferior product which you then have to pay hundreds to get the
functionality that a similar product with an sdslot would give you?

USB port (you have to pay more to compensate for its loss)
Aux jack (you have to pay more to compensate for its loss)
card slot (you have to pay more to compensate for its loss)

 
Just the opposite. Less manufacturing cost leads to less retail cost.

The market has decided. Most Androids have all three ports.
Mine does.

But then I don't purchase functionally inferior products like you do.

The market doesn't really decide. Otherwise we'd have no laws against
companies forcing the companies to do what they have to do, by law.

 
Course the market decides. Many (most?) folks shop by price. Phones that
 don't sell are cancelled. And when those few who actually shop for holes
 dwindle, no more holey phones either...  8-O

The market does decide (as long as the monopolies don't break the law).

Why do you think Samsung is the biggest single phone seller in the world?
And most Samsung phones have all three ports.

Google & Apple aren't stupid. They know this. It's part of their strategy.
They prey on people saying "oh, it's just a few hundred dollars" every day.

 
Not me. Google gets my $2 US/mo online storage and that's it. I don't see
 that changing anytime soon since I'm not in the market for any Pixels. And
 thanks Google for all those free services I use every day...

How long do you plan on holding on to that Pixel? Five years? Seven? Ten?
Let's take ten (or even twenty as you'll still have to have a phone then).

Two dollars a month is $24 per year time ten years is $240 dollars, right?
Double that for the next 20 years that you'll need a phone, so it's ~$500.

What that means is you bought an inferior product which requires an outlay
of about five hundred dollars just to get the functionality of an sdcard.

Google loves people like you just as much as Apple loves its iPhone whales.
Your decision is so bad you have to pay hundreds to fix your bad choices.