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

Tyrone,

Bottom line: You think you still need an sd-card, but have not even tried
to
explain what for, and have concocted a paranoia "they are out to get us"
story to make it sound as if its *really* needed.

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Which is Marion's standard MO.

I've known Arlen/Marion for a number of years, but this is the first time (I
know of) he's gone in the paranoia direction.

But yes, posting a seemingly open question (to engage others) and than
tagging his actual question/rant to it is quite known to me.

Make a LOT of claims, but they are never a reflection of reality.

I won't say /never/, but yes.    Same for his requests for software
solutions. They /must/ run on both Windows and Linux, and on all versions
thereof.   You think thats impossible ?  Well, as he can imagine it but you
can't deliver that must mean you are way less smart than him.  Been there,
done that.  :-)

His whole point is to make iPhones "look bad". Thus, iPhones are
"inferior" because they lack legacy ports that are no longer needed.

I've not seen him mention/infer that to me ...    But in that case there are
multiple Android telephones that do not have them either.

I have not fiddled with SD cards for about 15 years.

I've got a few Raspberry Pi's which use them.  They need the fast and
lots-of-writes ones.  And yes, those sd-cards are a bit more expensive than
the slow-speed, once-on-a-month usage ones.

You install iCloud on the Windows PCS and all your pics are
*automatically* copied over.

Hmmm...  I've always found the idea of having two devices (phone and 'puter)
sitting a few meters apart and than having your data going thousands of
miles thru a cloud server somewhere a bit jarring

Than again, I'm a strong proponent of keeping my data local.   I might not
be paranoia, but I'm certainly not blindly trusting faceless (and sometimes
even fully unknown) companies.

It also doesn't help reading that such companies might re-compress (alter)
your pictures and music - or, in the latter case, even *replace* it.

My iPhones and iPads have a minimum of 256GB, and I have iPad Pros with
1TB. So why do I still need to fiddle about with slow, obsolete SD cards?

Obsolete sd card-*slots* on such devices.  sd-cards still have their usage
(see above). :-)

But yes.  With enough internal storage to begin with you don't really need
an internal sd-card.  With enough possibilities to transfer data to/from
external storage/a computer you don't really need an external-facing sd-card
slot either.

Exception: When you have /humongous/ ammounts of data, and you want to
access it mid smartphone-only travel.  In that specific case I could imagine
being able to exchange the sd-card would make sense.

Ofcourse, our cases we would just insert a thumbdrive (or anthing that acts
like one and can travel).

Marion will claim that legacy crap like SD cards and headphone jacks are
"industry standards".

At one time they where.

But SD cards are 26 years old and headphone jacks are about 80 years old.
Neither are needed in the wireless age. Yes, you CAN still do it manually.

Personally I dislike having to charge several different devices just to be
able to access information stored on one of them - especially when I can't
check how much charge remains.

Murpy's law : at a moment when you really need them you will notice that one
of them isn't charged, and thus useless. :-)

Sorry, but I no longer want to do that.  I prefer to live in 2025, not
2005.

I would have liked to be able to still use a passive headphone.  On the
other hand, I also recognise that such jacks may cause a lot of internal
damage when mishandled (like when the wire gets pulled sideways).   As such
I accepted the longer life of the smartphone without them.  Not that I had
much choice in that, mind you. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser