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

Marion, 2025-06-18 07:31:

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:33:36 +0200, Arno Welzel 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.

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I don't pay any money.

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Hmmm... is that really true?

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Yes. I also don't pay any money.

 
I'll agree with anyone who makes a sensibly logical assessment.
But I will disagree when someone's assessment is illogically unsound.
 
You just made a statement which I can easily pick apart logically.
The fact is, you did pay more money. In fact, you paid a *lot* more money.

No - I just bought that device and that's it. I am not paying for Google
cloud services.

I am as experienced as anyone on having over a thousand packages on my
phone, which *easily* fits within the bounds of 64GB of internal storage.

And I have around 100 GB of data on my phone because I have OSMAnd with
offline map data and many other things.

So what?

The *main* reason people buy a phone with greater than 64GB of internal
storage is that phone is a substandard phone that lacks the sd slot.

I don't care. It works for me.

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BTW, you don't have to agree with me that you got fleeced by Google.
But you should at least *understand* why I assess that you were fleeced.

I run multiple servers with around 4 TB storage in total - always
accessible and backed up daily to multiple different locations. These
servers are also used to keep backups of my smartphone, my adressbook,
calendar, all the pictures I take with my phone, e-mail, password
manager using Bitwarden and so on...

Telling me, that I am "fleeced by Google" is really funny ;-).


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Arno Welzel
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