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From: Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject: Re: What's the actual *advantage* of HAVING an sd slot?
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 16:16:30 +0200
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Marion, 2025-06-19 17:14:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 23:43:21 +0200, Arno Welzel wrote :
> 
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Hi Arno, (this is a nicer me, but still the logically sensible me)
> 
> I didn't say anything about Google cloud services when I explained you got
> badly fleeced by Google's rather brilliant marketing ploy of removing basic
> functionality so that you have to pay an arm & a leg to replace it.

I don't have "to pay an arm & a leg to replace it".

> You paid Google, at yesterday's prices, for the total amount of on-device
> storage you estimated you'd need during the life of the phone - well before
> you needed it.

No, I needed it at the time I bought it. 64 GB would not have been
enough, as I already had around 70 GB of data to be transferred from my
backup back to the phone.

> Google marketing thanks you for making that decision.

And Samsung marketing thanks you. So what?


-- 
Arno Welzel
https://arnowelzel.de