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

Marion, 2025-06-17 16:06:

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:20:06 +0200, Carlos E.R. 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.

>
I don't pay any money.

 
Hmmm... is that really true?

Yes. I also don't pay any money.

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.

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.

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.

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