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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Additions to the iOS/Android Features Document
Date: 19 May 2024 19:02:53 GMT
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On 2024-05-19, Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg wrote on 19 May 2024 10:02:46 GMT :
>
>>> And then carry around a separate device?!
>> 
>>   I interpreted his "portable storage" as a sneaker-net mechanism,
>>   copying a bunch of files from device X to device Y, where X and Y
>>   can be any device which can handle MicroSD cards.
>> 
>>   (IM) For *that*, a memory-stick is much more conevenient than
>>   fiddling with tiny MicroSD cards and tiny 'slots'/'trays'.
>> 
>>   But meanwhile he has explained that he uses the MicroSD card to
>>   move a complete file system from and 'old' phone to a 'new' one. So
>>   he is not copying files, but moving a complete file system.
>> 
>>   That is a very specific use of the MicroSD card feature, not
>>   something I would have described with a general term like "portable
>>   storage".
>
> This is so basic that it's shocking that the Apple people don't know
> it.

Narrator: They know. They just don't care.

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