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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?
Date: 14 Jul 2025 15:25:42 GMT
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Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 22:28:01 +0200, R.Wieser wrote :
> 
> > To be honest, I can think of a reason/situation or two why/when an sd-card 
> > would be something good to have.  But when wants to think of himself as the 
> > only one who knows anything, and we are "strange completely ignorant 
> > uneducated trolls" ?  Than I'm not really feeling inclined (understatement) 
> > to help him support his arguments.  Something I definitily /would/ do in a 
> > honest discussion.
> 
> Carrying a thumb drive with you everywhere you go is only something you and
> Frank would come up with

  Why would anyone want to carry a "thumb drive"!? We're - well at least
I was/am - talking about apples-to-apples alternatives. A "thumb drive"
doesn't fall in that category. (Clue-by-four: This is a trap. At least
*try* not to fall in it.)

>			   - where at least you could have figured out that
> the cloud (if you pay through the nose for it) would do some of what sd
> does (but at a price, not only in cost, but in privacy as it has to be paid
> for in the huge sizes that sd cards do for you, e.g., for your map data).

  Well, we - well at least I - don't come up with that alternative,
because *you* keep harping about the 'portable storage' use of SD-cards.
The 'cloud' isn't 'portable storage', it's an *alternative* in *some*
situations (doesn't quite work without Internet access, does it?).

> That you and Frank can't figure out what an sd card does is one piece of

  Well, we - well at least I - know full when what it can do, but *you*
keep 'forgetting' the use for which there is no alternative, so you keep
shooting yourself in the feet.

> Not one of you fools has any idea nor any experience with sd cards.

> BTW, I'm not surprised Alan Baker never used an sd card because he owns
> iPhones, but I was at first surprised that neither Rudy nor Frank ever used
> them. It's clear neither of them has any experience whatsoever with them.

  <BARF!> I used them ever since *2013* in my first phones and tablets,
which had too little Internal Storage, ranging from 4GB (effectively <=
1GB) to 8GB and 16GB.

  Now, I don't use them anymore, because I have no need for them. (And
yes, my phone *does* have a SD-card slot.)

  BTW, as I mentioned recently and you 'conveniently' ignored, only the
current bottom (A16 and A26) models of your beloved Samsung Galaxy
A-Series still have a SD-card slot (shared as second SIM or SD-card).
The A36 and A56 do not have a SD-card slot.

  So if you want to keep your precious SD-card slot in the future,
you'll have to downgrade *and* be damn quick about it!