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Subject: Re: Additions to the iOS/Android Features Document
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On 2024-05-19 03:02, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> 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'.

Especially as so many phones are now using the same tray for the SIM...

....so you have to stop using the phone AS A PHONE...

....twice!

> 
>    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".
> 
> [...]