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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Additions to the iOS/Android Features Document
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 15:54:19 -0700
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On 2024-05-17 15:04, Hank Rogers wrote:
> Alan wrote:
>> On 2024-05-17 13:54, Andrew wrote:
>>> Frank Slootweg wrote on 17 May 2024 19:34:44 GMT :
>>>
>>>>> My Android phones are all free from T-Mobile and they all have the aux
>>>>> jack, the FM radio, and the all important portable-storage sd slot.
>>>>>
>>>>> Most iPhone users think the portable storage slot is only for 
>>>>> extending the
>>>>> internal memory - but it's also portable storage - which they can't 
>>>>> do.
>>>>> (Apple wants them to pay for the iCloud so they can save pictures & 
>>>>> video.)
>>>>
>>>>    I know you like to tout the SD card 'slot' on Android phones, but 
>>>> IMO
>>>> using them for *portable* storage, while possible, is not very
>>>> convenient.
>>>
>>> Thank you for understanding that I _love_ that more than half of all
>>> Android phones in use today still have the SD slot, the aux jack and 
>>> the FM
>>> radio (if not the removable battery - which I loved just as much as 
>>> those).
>>
>> Even if nobody is using them...
> 
> Both phones suffer from the shitty and non-user replaceable batteries. 
> Glued together. And the software that drops support after a few years.

Whereby with iOS "a few years" means "almost always more than 5 years"...

....which is longer than most phones survive.

> 
> Both are shitty chinese disposable devices. Pure crap.
> 
> Both are the result of pure greed.
> 
> At least apple has a thriving cult.

<yawn>