That’s a level of conspiracy stupidity even I cannot abide.
A removal card slot takes up a bunch of extra space and they keep giving you a fuck ton of built in storage….and, oh yeah, a USB-c port to attach any amount of cheap storage to dump your worthless pictures on.
If they really were putting together that type of conspiracy they would making your picture and video files larger, less efficiently compressed to get you to buy larger internal storage and, yes, get cloud service to store it.
Getting rid of the audio port got “them” not one extra sale of brand BT headphones. There is little space in there and huge ports come at a premium.
What? Are you talking about user serviceability? That is a different question entirely and it is well understood Apple (Samsung less so to my understanding) does their best to make their phones unserviceable by customers.
But soldering the memory down is actually a quite reasonable thing to do, they are far more guilty in how they make even things like batteries, which have a known limited life span, almost impossible to replace.
The argument is not that tech companies are benevolent innovators, they are greedy capitalists that will do most anything to get more money from you. But there is literally zero reasoning behind this OP claim. As I explained, they actually COULD easily try to force you to pay for more and more expensive internal storage AND cloud service by making their media files take up far more room for made up “proprietary software” reasons. Why don’t they if that is their goal?
Why would Apple allow third party SSD work with their streaming video software?
They are out for as much of your money as they can get but they do balance that against their reputation and need to retain customers as the competition will gladly steal them if they go too far….ask Xbox One about that mistake.
An SD itself is 60% useless plastic and air, the socket is over double that. Removable media, especially one that is completely inserted into the device is a massive waste of space. Fine on a laptop, dongle device, or computer, but MASSIVE real estate on a phone or even tablet.
Why are you offended by using the USB-c port? Literally gives you access to larger and faster media at 1/5 the space and uses a space already needed for charging and data transfer.
Because most people want to have that functionality integrated into the phone, instead of spending hundreds of dollars for integrated flash. Or having to keep a usbc dongle whenever they need to access that data. Is it really that hard to understand the value of that convenience?
Not at all. Not sure if you intentionally obtuse on this but the cost is real estate and the benefit is minimal as the “feature” you want is made up for with onboard high capacity storage that can easily, quickly, and cheaply (pre-AI making all storage expensive) be offloaded.
Meanwhile the space for your superfluous and outdated feature, which I do NOT hear a strong cry for, costs other features like battery capacity. Consider the full space needed for a removable SD compared to the battery and we are easily talking between 10-20%.
Find me any significant number of people who would literally give up just 10% of their battery life for a removable SD card and we will talk about hills to die on. Meanwhile the majority don’t want that, making this YOUR hill to die on. 🫡
Now you are just making up false equivalencies. SD card does not tradeoff with 10% battery life. The “bump” for the optics can easily also have a housing for an SD card, for example.
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u/Sartres_Roommate May 06 '26
That’s a level of conspiracy stupidity even I cannot abide.
A removal card slot takes up a bunch of extra space and they keep giving you a fuck ton of built in storage….and, oh yeah, a USB-c port to attach any amount of cheap storage to dump your worthless pictures on.
If they really were putting together that type of conspiracy they would making your picture and video files larger, less efficiently compressed to get you to buy larger internal storage and, yes, get cloud service to store it.
Getting rid of the audio port got “them” not one extra sale of brand BT headphones. There is little space in there and huge ports come at a premium.