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From: AJL <noemail@none.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: A good thing or a bad thing (Was: Tutorial: Working example of
 removing & re-installing Android system apps from a PC)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 15:53:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On 4/2/25 8:26 AM, AJL wrote:
>On 4/2/25 1:28 AM, Peter wrote:
>>Isaac Montara <IsaacMontara@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Both Apple & Google don't want you to have inexpensive reliable storage.
>>> Can you guess why?
>>
>>ooooh ooooh oooh (raises hand and flags down the professor)...
>>Let me guess.
>>
>>Apple gives you 5GB of "free" cloud storage for your 256GB device, which
>>means you have to multiply that 5GB by about 50 times to store your stuff.
>
>
>>If you want to expand your storage about 200GB, both Apple & Google will
>>charge you the same low low incredibly low (act fast!) monthly fee of only
>>a mere pittance of $2.99 per month, which is about $36 for a year (which,
>>incidentally, is about how much any similar sized sd card would have cost).
>
>I pay Google 2 bucks/mo US for 1GB. 

Typo. Should be 100GB


> Not a big $$$ deal for me. YMMV. I use
> it for off site backup (like if the house burns down) and it is also
> conveniently available to any of my devices pretty much anywhere if wanted
> or needed. A card just wouldn't provide the same service or use, although I
> do keep one locally in case Google burns down.
>
>
>>But then you need that storage for ten years (or whatever), so now that
>>one-time NRE of ~$36 would have saved you ~$360 dollars paying for storage.
>
>
>>Since both Apple & Google benefit to the tune of a few hundred dollars per
>>each person who owns their devices has to pay them, it makes sense why they
>>don't spend the couple of bucks it would cost for them to put an sdslot in.
>
>Most all the Google Android devices I've owned over the years were made by
> somebody else. And they made the SD slot decision, not Google. An example
> would be this Chrome OS tablet I'm posting with made by Lenovo. It has no
> SD slot and the culprit is...yup...Lenovo...
>
>