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From: Marion <marion@facts.com>
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Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:19:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:36:41 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote :


>> A phone without the sd card (all else being equal) is always going to be
>> inferior in capability to a phone with the sd card. That's pure logic.
> 
> WHY?
> 
> I don't see the logic.
> 
> I don't need a memory card in years. I have not felt the need. And no, I 
> don't pay anybody.
> 
> (and my phone does have the slot)
> 
> And please remember to be polite and accept gracefully other people 
> opinions.

Hi Carlos, 

Your phone is a capable phone because it has the basic industry standard
hardware that allows you to do things that people without it can't do.

Hence, it's completely valid that you haven't felt the need for an SD card
slot in years, especially since your current phone already has one. That
means your phone offers you the choice to use it or not, which is a key
part of its inherent capability.

When I say a phone with an SD card slot is "always going to be superior in
capability" to one without it, I'm talking about the potential for
functionality – even if that potential isn't utilized by every user. 

It's like a pickup having a tow hitch where you might never tow anything,
but the ability is always there, making it more capable than an identical
pickup without that toe hitch.

You might not do *any* of that stuff - but I do it all the time. Every day.
Every minute of every single day - I'm using that sd card in that sd slot.

Given you don't do the stuff I do, please allow me to ask you questions.
But allow me to ask you a few related questions, please?
a. At purchase time, did you pay for more than for 64GB internal storage?
b. When you migrated to a new phone, were you forced to use the Internet?
c. Did you ever wish you could have double, triple, quadruple the storage?
d. Do you put your sensitive personal data (e.g., images) on the "cloud"?
e. Do you ever hot swap from one phone to another huge media files?

You may do none of that functionality, and then it's like you having a tow
hitch on your pickup truck that you never used; but you can use it if you
need to, whereas if you can't install that toe hitch, you simply can't.

The SD card isn't just about "more storage," or "portable storage" but
about privacy, flexibility, control, resilience, cost, and independent
functionality that is inherently lost when the slot is removed. It gives
the user more options for how they manage their data and use their device,
regardless of whether every user exercises every one of those options.