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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of HAVING an sd slot?
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:43:21 +0200
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Marion, 2025-06-18 07:31:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:33:36 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :
> 
> 
>>>>> There is no advantage to not having an sd slot, and, in fact, the advantage
>>>>> of not having an sd slot is that you have to pay money to replace the
>>>>> functionality - and that advantage goes to Apple, Google, Motorola, etc.
>>>>
>>>> I don't pay any money.
>>>
>>> Hmmm... is that really true?
>>
>> Yes. I also don't pay any money.
> 
> I'll agree with anyone who makes a sensibly logical assessment.
> But I will disagree when someone's assessment is illogically unsound.
> 
> You just made a statement which I can easily pick apart logically.
> The fact is, you did pay more money. In fact, you paid a *lot* more money.

No - I just bought that device and that's it. I am not paying for Google
cloud services.

> I am as experienced as anyone on having over a thousand packages on my
> phone, which *easily* fits within the bounds of 64GB of internal storage.

And I have around 100 GB of data on my phone because I have OSMAnd with
offline map data and many other things.

So what?

> The *main* reason people buy a phone with greater than 64GB of internal
> storage is that phone is a substandard phone that lacks the sd slot.

I don't care. It works for me.

[...]
> BTW, you don't have to agree with me that you got fleeced by Google.
> But you should at least *understand* why I assess that you were fleeced.

I run multiple servers with around 4 TB storage in total - always
accessible and backed up daily to multiple different locations. These
servers are also used to keep backups of my smartphone, my adressbook,
calendar, all the pictures I take with my phone, e-mail, password
manager using Bitwarden and so on...

Telling me, that I am "fleeced by Google" is really funny ;-).


-- 
Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de