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Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:24:21 -0700
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On 2025-06-22 00:49, Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-06-22 06:51:09 +0000, R.Wieser said:
>> Your Name,
>>> 
>>> Depending on the design of the "truck" and "tow hitch" (i.e.
>>> does the "tow hitch" stick out beyond the rear of the truck):
>>> 
>>> - one without a "tow hitch" can back up closer to a wall / car 
>>> behind it than one with a "tow hitch".
>>> 
>>> - one without a "tow hitch" can't hurt people walking behind it,
>>> while one with a "tow hitch" can cause people to bang their
>>> shins on it.
>> 
>> The OP has already proven himself to be blind and deaf for any
>> counter argument.
>> 
>>> Almost any comparison (as well as survey, poll, and study) can
>>> be skewed to "prove" whatever someone wants it to "prove". In
>>> the end such comparisons are rather pointless.  :-)
>> 
>> The OP hasn't figured out how to do that yet, his methods are
>> still rather crude.
>> 
>>> In terms of the mobile phone and audio jack, most people simply 
>>> either never used it or were tired of trying to untangle the
>>> wires on the earphones, so it was removed form devices (first by
>>> Apple and then copy-catted by most other makers).
>> 
>> I'm not sure if the above is what actually happened cause-and-
>> effect wise, but its possible.
>> 
>>> There were of course other reasons to remove the audio jack.
>>> One being the silliness to continually make mobile phones (and
>>> tablets) ever thinner, not that anyone every really complained
>>> about modern cellphones being too thick.
>> 
>> Similar considerations have been posted a few times now (including
>> by me), but the OP refuses to respond to/discuss any of it.  He
>> just *knows* its because "they" (all of the phone makers) are out
>> to gouge him, and nobody can tell him otherwise.
>> 
>> Regards, Rudy Wieser
> 
> In some ways they are gouging the customers who still want / need
> those functions. They remove things from a device without lowering
> the price, and then charge extra to get those same functions back
> again. No longer including a charger is another recent example.

Except, you can't know what they would have charged had they kept the 
charger in place...

....and because USB-C is an open standard, Apple (or any other smartphone 
maker) is in now way guaranteed that you'll buy those other things from them

> 
> It's not just mobile phones either. The original iMac dropped the
> floppy disk drive and had no real replacement since USB thumb drives
> being too expensive at the time. You had to buy an external floppy
> disk drive (once they were available!) to be able to easily and
> cheaply transfer files between computers.

Or you bought a Zip drive, which was 70 times more useful!

Or you used the internet to transfer. :-)

Seriously, I was selling Macs when the iMac dropped and most didn't go 
out the door with an external floppy.