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

On 2025-06-22 06:47, Marion wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:46:53 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :
 

Nope. Vastly inferior? Nope. It is simply a design choice. You like it
or not. It can be important to you or not. You make a list of things
that you absolutely need in a phone, another of things you would like,
and then make your choice of phone amongst those on the market.
>
There are no absolutes; what to you maybe very important to another
person is pointless.

 Hi Carlos, (a kinder gentler me, but still always logical & sensible)
 You make your own choices. As do I. As does everyone else.
The only thing I ask of people is to "think" of why they made that choice.
 I understand that your opinion is that a phone that is designed to limit
your options is just a "design choice" and I won't disagree with that.
 If a person chooses the Samsung ecosystem, they have that choice.
 The high-end (read, "expensive") phones have "design choices" of removal of
industry standard basic hardware, which are designed to limit your options,
but, a purchaser of a $1K phone can easily purchase back the lost
functionality (some of it, of course, as it's impossible to get all back).
 a. charger (in the box)
b. aux jack (on the device)
c. sd slot (in the device)
 Yet, the low-end (read, "less expensive") phones still have the basic
hardware "design choices" of the aux jack, sd slot and huge batteries.

If we called "low-end" anything under (say) $250 USD, then:
There are 1,128 smartphones listed on GSMArena released from 2022 on.
Only 830 have an SD card slot of any kind.
Only 825 have a 3.5mm aux jack.
So considerably less in proportion to "high-end" phones.
It's almost like you lack anything even resembling a clue...
...let alone a fact.