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

Arno Welzel wrote:

Yes, having an *optional* slot for an SD card may be useful
for some cases - but I don't see the absolute need for this any longer
compared to the past days where a device without an SD card was more or
less useless since the available internal memory was sometimes even less
than 4 GB in entry level devices (like the HTC Wildfire S with only 512
MB memory

Yes, I started in the days of 512MB storage and an SD card was a necessity.  With the bump to 7 years support, I wondered whether the increase in app-bloat during the phone's life would justify buying a 256GB model instead of 128GB, but decided against it.