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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Additions to the iOS/Android Features Document
Date: 19 May 2024 10:02:46 GMT
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sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/2024 12:34 PM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >    For portable storage, it's much easier to plug a (compatible)
> > memory-stick into the USB or Lightning port. There are many such
> > memory-sticks, most with dual plugs of different types (USB-A, USB-C,
> > Micro-USB, Lightning). Yes, more expensive than a MicroSD card, but
> > much, much more convenient.
> 
> And then carry around a separate device?!

  I interpreted 'Arlen''s "portable storage" as a sneaker-net mechanism,
copying a bunch of files from device X to device Y, where X and Y can be
any device which can handle MicroSD cards.

  (IM) For *that*, a memory-stick is much more conevenient than fiddling
with tiny MicroSD cards and tiny 'slots'/'trays'.

  But meanwhile 'Arlen' has explained that he uses the MicroSD card to
move a complete file system from and 'old' phone to a 'new' one. So he
is not copying files, but moving a complete file system.

  That is a very specific use of the MicroSD card feature, not something
I would have described with a general term like "portable storage".

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