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

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 19:42:57 +0200, R.Wieser wrote :

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

 
For whom ?  You ? Us ? The manufacturers ?

Ah, you bring up the most important point of all, Rudy.
AFAIK, there is only one advantage to NOT having an sd slot.

And that is "someone else" gets to make a lot of money off of your need for
portable storage and especially your need for future portable storage.

A *lot* of money.

Note that Arno spread the nonsense that the only use of sd is for expansion
memory, and Arno spread the nonsense FUD about bad memory blocks, but that
just shows Arno doesn't understand what an sd slot is and why it's there.

All else being equal, a phone WITHOUT the sd slot is always a vastly
substandard phone than one with it *for the user*.

That's because it's *impossible* to replace its functionality without it.

To your point, cloud storage companies make a bundle off of people who have
phones without sd slots, as do the phone makers themselves make a bundle.

The way the phone maker makes a bundle is not that they save the puny cost
of adding the industry standard sd slot, but that they make a bundle
selling you more internal storage (at inflated prices) than you initially
need.

To answer your question, it's *impossible* for there to be an advantage to
the user but it's clearly a huge financial advantage to the phone makers!

Which is exactly why they do it.

It's not for you.
It's for them.