Re: Additions to the iOS/Android Features Document

On 2024-05-19 03:02, Frank Slootweg wrote:

sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

On 5/17/2024 12:34 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
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    For portable storage, it's much easier to plug a (compatible)
memory-stick into the USB or Lightning port. There are many such
memory-sticks, most with dual plugs of different types (USB-A, USB-C,
Micro-USB, Lightning). Yes, more expensive than a MicroSD card, but
much, much more convenient.

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And then carry around a separate device?!

    I interpreted 'Arlen''s "portable storage" as a sneaker-net mechanism,
copying a bunch of files from device X to device Y, where X and Y can be
any device which can handle MicroSD cards.
    (IM) For *that*, a memory-stick is much more conevenient than fiddling
with tiny MicroSD cards and tiny 'slots'/'trays'.

Especially as so many phones are now using the same tray for the SIM...
...so you have to stop using the phone AS A PHONE...
...twice!

    But meanwhile 'Arlen' has explained that he uses the MicroSD card to
move a complete file system from and 'old' phone to a 'new' one. So he
is not copying files, but moving a complete file system.
    That is a very specific use of the MicroSD card feature, not something
I would have described with a general term like "portable storage".
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