Re: What's the actual *advantage* of HAVING an sd slot?

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:33:36 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :

There is no advantage to not having an sd slot, and, in fact, the advantage
of not having an sd slot is that you have to pay money to replace the
functionality - and that advantage goes to Apple, Google, Motorola, etc.

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I don't pay any money.

 
Hmmm... is that really true?

 
Yes. I also don't pay any money.

I'll agree with anyone who makes a sensibly logical assessment.
But I will disagree when someone's assessment is illogically unsound.

You just made a statement which I can easily pick apart logically.
The fact is, you did pay more money. In fact, you paid a *lot* more money.

I am as experienced as anyone on having over a thousand packages on my
phone, which *easily* fits within the bounds of 64GB of internal storage.

The *main* reason people buy a phone with greater than 64GB of internal
storage is that phone is a substandard phone that lacks the sd slot.

Given it's a substandard phone, of course you have to buy more internal
storage, and that's fine but it *still* doesn't do what portable storage
does.

If you chose the "bigger" storage over the base "64GB" (if that was the
base, of course) then you "did" pay more money - a *lot* more money.

 
My model did not come with less memory. 128 GB was already the small
version and it was way cheaper than an iPhone and still cheaper thatn
many comparable Android phones. And yes, I also take into account the
overall build quality and the camera quality.
 
And iFixit offers most of the parts as replacement:
<https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Google_Pixel_6a>
That is the important part for me - and not if there is an SD card slot.

Again, you make a statement which I can easily pick apart logically.
Google and Apple are not stupid. You need to understand that fact.

They *know* the iPhone & Pixel are substandard phones.
They are the ones who designed those substandard phones in the first place.

So, of course you can't get one of those substandard phones in 64GB sizes.
The phone would be worthless if it only had 64GB of internal storage.

But only because it doesn't have the sd slot.
Google/Apple are not stupid.

They're actually brilliant.

Remember, the strategy from Apple/Google is to remove functionality so that
you're forced to buy it back - in this case - from them - for a lot of $$$!

 
Only, if you think so.

Well, you fell for it.
Google profited from your mistakes.

And that's fine.
You're welcome to be a whale that feeds Google's profit margin.

Just be truthful to yourself when you claim you didn't fall for that trick.
You did.

Just accept that you fell for their (rather brilliant) strategy of removing
basic functionality so that you'd be forced to purchase it back.

For a *lot* more money.

Arno said that's what he did & *many* people do that, but I can't conceive
of any good technical reason to have more than 64GB of internal storage.

 
I have 128 GB internal storage. And the next device I buy in a few years
may have 256 GB or even 512 GB.

Trust me. I understand you Arno. I believe you.
You fell for one of the oldest marketing tricks in the book.

You paid something like two to ten times more for what you got.
Google thanks you for that.

And even then, you didn't get the functionality of portable memory.
Both of which (together as one) is the point, after all.

BTW, you don't have to agree with me that you got fleeced by Google.
But you should at least *understand* why I assess that you were fleeced.