Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AJL 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) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <7u5lblxjel.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:53:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7c1117d69f7b9fd6bfb849859cbdf028"; logging-data="2339532"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+/xmczrdZvuJ9nQ6JAsMwA" User-Agent: PhoNews/3.13.3 (Android/13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tn8fA26o1fg/yYMnmYeh9ofJFfo= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3768 On 4/2/25 8:26 AM, AJL wrote: >On 4/2/25 1:28 AM, Peter wrote: >>Isaac Montara 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... > >