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

On 2025-06-21 16:16, Arno Welzel wrote:

Marion, 2025-06-19 17:14:
 

On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:43:21 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :
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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.

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

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Hi Arno, (this is a nicer me, but still the logically sensible me)
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I didn't say anything about Google cloud services when I explained you got
badly fleeced by Google's rather brilliant marketing ploy of removing basic
functionality so that you have to pay an arm & a leg to replace it.

 I don't have "to pay an arm & a leg to replace it".
 

You paid Google, at yesterday's prices, for the total amount of on-device
storage you estimated you'd need during the life of the phone - well before
you needed it.

 No, I needed it at the time I bought it. 64 GB would not have been
enough, as I already had around 70 GB of data to be transferred from my
backup back to the phone.
 

Google marketing thanks you for making that decision.

 And Samsung marketing thanks you. So what?

IMHO, Samsung phones come with too small storage space, so those users might need to add more later. And more capable models are significantly more expensive. Also tends to have older OS versions.
Thus I try to avoid Samsung, except for people that are not geeks and want easy with little changes. If they are used to Samsung I seek for them another Samsung.
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Cheers, Carlos.