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

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:12:36 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :

Please don't spread nonsense, Arno.

 
Which nonsense?

The only one who wins by you NOT having an SD card is the manufacturer.
And cloud sellers.

Your whole post was nonsense. It didn't address the main issue.
I know you know better Arno. You're not stupid. You know computers.

But I don't know why you spread that senseless meaningless nonsense.
So that's why I asked you to stop spreading unrelated nonsense.

First you spread FUD (which is nothing more than fear mongering).
You may as well worry about someone hiding under your bed if you're that
scared your photos will have a bit that is "damaged" when saved to media.

Second, you ignored that almost nobody (likely one out of a million) uses
the sd card the *only* way you described it to be used. That's nonsense.

Most people pop the sdcard into their phone. That's it.
That's portable storage.

When they get a new phone, they pop out the old sd card & pop it into the
new phone. That's it. It works just fine. There's no reason for your FUD.

If they wish to increase their portable storage capacity, they simply put
in a larger card (and copy the old files onto that new larger card).

Viola. You can quadruple your portable storage that easily.
Without the nonsense FUD that you spewed.
 

Currently I use a Pixel 6a - a mainstream "entry level" device which
already has 128 GB memory. And it has still around 38 GB free. The app
list tells me, that there are 228 apps installed. I also use OsmAnd with
many offline maps on the device, have many pictures and a lot of music
on it, K9 mail with 5 IMAP accounts connected and so on.

How much *less* would it have cost you to buy that phone with 64GB, Arno?

Do you have ANY IDEA why Google/Apple sell you a phone without portable
storage? It's not for you, Arno. They make a ton of money off of you.

I have a thousand apps installed on my 64GB of permanent internal storage.
In a flash, I can quadruple the portable storage.
You can't.

While I got the phone for free, I didn't have to get a phone with 128GB of
storage which would have cost a *LOT* more, Arno.

The only ones benefiting from the loss of sd cards are the phone makers.
And the cloud sellers.

The customer loses when their phone doesn't have basic functionality.

Maybe when you install a lot of games memory may be an issue - but for
gaming you may want to get a more powerful device anyway and these often
come with 256 or 512 GB memory.

Memory is not what portable storage is all about.

It is *impossible* to replace what portable storage does.

Anything even close, means you have to pay a *LOT* of money to those who
benefit by NOT putting the capability of portable storage on that phone.

If you think that statement wrong, then tell me what a phone without
portable storage can do that a phone with portable storage can't do?

Because I can tell you what a phone with portable storage can do that a
phone without it can not possibly do (at least not at the same cost in
terms of privacy loss and/or monetary loss).