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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of not having an sd slot?
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:29:00 +0200
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Marion, 2025-06-17 19:03:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:21:28 +0200, R.Wieser wrote :
> 
> 
>>>> Although that can be true for Apple, Google doesn't build Android
>>>> phones.
>> ...
>>> Who builds the Pixel?
>>
>> My mistake.   I should have said "doesn't build *all* Android phones".
> 
> I'm glad badgolferman is on the ball here, and that Rudy clarified what he
> meant, where Usenet is a one-way-at-a-time medium which is off the cuff.
> 
> So omissions of detail happen naturally.
> A quick correction is always a good thing.
> 
> My main point isn't really about sd cards but about the fact that people
> are fooled by the (brilliant) marketing of the likes of Apple/Google.
> 
> Apple removes functionality (such as the aux jack) and then tells people
> it's good for them - when - in reality - it's a strategy of removing basic
> functionality so that the customer has to scramble to purchase it back.

No, Apple never told people, that it is "good for them" not to have an
aux jack. They just said, that there are better alternatives, like
Bluetooth, since many people don't like to use cables anyway.

And even Fairphone removed the aux jack with the Fairphone 4 - and
Fairphone is the company, which offers phones easy to repair and
sustainable. So to say Fairphone is just following apple, because they
are greedy and want to sell their cloud service is a bit far fetched.

Fairphone even offers sustainable Bluetooth headsets where you can
replace the batteries:

<https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds-xl>




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Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de