Zoomer here. I heard from my teacher today that phones used to have a slot like the sim card one where you could put in those digital camera memory sd cards in it. Why did no one complain when this happened?
>>107849066Buy a non shit phone?
>>107849066I agree it sucks that more and more phones don't have that option but they should upgrade to microSD Express anyways, conventional SD is getting slow. Rather have big internal storage from the getgo that's fast, UFS, etc.
>>107849066Works on my Xiaomi.
>>107849066Same reson we don't have a removable battery anymore.Money
>>107849066Perrty sure majority people like the look of the slick phone with less holes
>>107849066>it's fine bro i'll just save my photos to the cloud>why would I want to store media files? I have Spotify and Netflix for that
Because the only use case for them nowadays is on chink handhelds where you can just have every retro game imaginable on a sd card or for cameras which will have them already.
>>107849066Why would you have all your storage and personal private information stored locally when it can corrupt at any time on your SD card, SSD, HDD, etc...most people don't back their files up so the most convenient option is to put everything to a cloud storage based account that only you have access to. That way if your iPhone crashes or you break it, you can recover everything from browser history, cache, and more.
>>107849154even with their faults iPhones are the best smartphones out there though
>>107849202To be fair yes, but my cloud is Immich.Even if you have an SD card with infinite storage you should back up your photos at the first opportunity.
>>107849258i didn't complain about sd cards? Do you have a hard time understanding how conversations work?
>>107849066>I heard from my teacher today that phones used to have a slot like the sim cardHow fucking old are you?
>>107849066Works on my machine. Buy better phones.
>>107849299It's a troll thread. The majority of phones sold today have sd card slots. The only ones that don't are the overpriced fashion accessory models.
>>107849291So in your opinion only people who agree with any given op are allowed to participate and reply? lol, maybe reddit with the upboats is more for you my friend
>>107849081Yeah SDs have really stagnated.. is this an interface issue like with SATA? Or just general enshittification?
>>107849066SD card storage is slow as fuck a security risk. Also adds more surface for dust and water to get into
>>107849081>>107849315>Yeah SDs have really stagnated..Have they?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#SDUC
>>10784927290% of people don't back up their files every time they add to the drive or disk. Too inconvenient. Cloud storage is for the majority of the normal and average civilian, not the niche tech nerds that obsess about physical local storage
>>107849322>2026>still with this decades old iTrash seethejesus christ, seek help
>>107849322What will you do when you forget to back up your kid's first baby steps and your drive or shitty SD card craps out on you? Ask any photographer about corruption on SD's, they bring multiple because putting all eggs in one basket is retarded. Wedding photographers have ruined their reputations this way when they see it's all corrupted. Cloud storage fixes all of it. Simple as, you're an idiot if you can't see my point
>>107849340Yeah we do. >2TB SD card>backup takes hours at UHS-I speedsNo thanks.
>>107849327The mistake normies make is relying on someone else's computer, not in using automatic syncing. I do have an SD card in my phone, but I'm not taking any chances, I've seen people lose all their photos along with their phones.
>>107849066My phone has both a microSD card and an audio jack, and I wouldn't have bought it otherwise. Have you considered not buying $1k crippled toys?>>107849114I used to consider removable batteries necessary, but they managed to make them worthless. My previous phone had a removable battery, it was nearly dead, I tried to buy a replacement, but every "new" battery I found was almost a decade old and they all as useless as the original one or worse after being stored for so long. Removable batteries would only really make sense if they were standardized and you can be sure you'll be able to buy a new one, otherwise it's snake oil.
>>107849344off topic, but i have not met a stereotypical apple fanboy in like 20 years, but you fucking spergs seething about apple with Tim Apple living rent free in your head 24/7 are a dime a dozen. It would be kinda hilarious if it wasn't that sad.
>>107849066Because using external storage on Android always fucking sucked. 90% of apps couldn't be installed on SD cards because they were written by Indians.And taking so many photos that you need extra storage is primarily a female activity. So they just accepted it like the docile creatures they are.
>>107849066The real question to ask is why did they remove full SD/microSD card slots off almost everything outside of tablets and game consoles like it's obsolete?You have to get a hub or an adapter to plug in a SD card into your computer. Wtf?
>>107849310That was my assumption, considering the implication that OP is an underagedb&
If the phone has a sim slot there's no excuse not to have a dual use one for micro sd
>>107849360Yeah no shit, the cloud is literally someone else's computer. We are putting faith into the privacy policy/terms of service agreement in which we agree to, and the laws set forth by our local, federal or international govt. Your data is safe under layers of proven encryption. Apple iCloud, Windows OneDrive, and Google Android Photo Album have had ZERO non internal breaches, any cases documented were phishing or user error. Unless you have something to hide like C-S-A-M on your cloud drives, you have nothing to fear. That's the only thing they're scanning for. This actually helps rid society of degenerates so you should be praising cloud storage tech
>>107849384>making up these excuses>instead of microsd cards just being faster that will benefit everyone in every scenario no matter how nicheok
>>107849366>Sure I can't have both network backups (on my self-hosted server that won't force me to pay every month HDD price for a storage space) and SD cards because some crapple ishill told so.The average normal person will not be doing that, my whole point...sure you can do it, more power to you but you're not part of the dragnet targeted audience. Most are reliant on cloud computing storage and don't have the ability or knowledge to do it other than signing into their Google or iCloud account for auto syncing, instead of doing it on a PC OS that will sync it anyways
Are zoomers too young to remember that using SD cards on Android was total shit? It's not a surprise not many cared when it was taken away. It was the reason that I started self-hosting cloud storage.
>>107849221>that only you (pursuant to the iCloud EULA) and Apple have access toFTFY
>>107849389you forgot the Fappening?
>>107849389i'm less concerned about cheese pizza among my digital belongings than you appear to be, and more concerned about them using the data given to them for commercial purposes, the way a sane and rational adult would be
>>107849066>headphone jack>sd card slot>no hole punch/notch of cuckoldry Feels good being an Xperia GOD
They really want to force users onto "the cloud" for storage. It not only demands more internal storage but demands more network use.
>>107849389Like I already said I'm using immich on my home server. I do not trust the increasingly browner workforce at big companies, and I don't want my photos to be used to train AI or make money off of in any other way.
>>107849460That was phishing, aka user error. Again, no actual nude or private personal data leaks were ever done on a cloud level other than with subpoenas or search warrants, or physical access to the hardware
>>107849066Samsung tried it once with the Galaxy s5 and brought the sd card back when everyone just bought other brands.All the other brands started making such dogshit phones that we ended up having those markets due out, giving Samsung an effective duolopy where they decided to (again) remove the SD card slot.
>>107849066I bet barely anybody ever used it. Most people are barely sentient, expandable storage makes no sense when you take the average consumer into account.
>>107849505Whatever dude...
>>107849514normalniggers don't fully own their phones either, they pay the carrier monthly fees
AI Phobia off the charts in this thread. Shills are out in numbers to push the AI bubble narrative
because sd cards are unreliable pieces of shitthey will inevitably corrupt creating a horrible customer experience, that the customer will blame the phone manufacturer forunless you dont care about your reputation you just dont add something that will ruin your brand perception
>>107849565>a horrible customer experience>you dont care about your reputation>brand perception
>>107849066my samsung galaxy can use the sim+sd card slot as sim+sim. useful for travelling, or adultery i guess.
>>107849066My dirt cheap chinese phone still has it.
>>107849565>because sd cards are unreliable pieces of shit>they will inevitably corrupt creating a horrible customer experienceI've purchased maybe 100 microsds in my life, and I've never had one fail. What are you guys doing with these things?
>>107849843>I've purchased maybe 100 microsds theres your answer, you retire them before they shit the bedits the sensible thing to do, but certainly not what the average consumer willbut ive had barely used cards nuke themselves, and they werent even from unreliable brands
>>107849324I was about to clown you for posting vaporware, but they're actually making these now. This shit could kill everything if it's stable.
Apple never had micro SD slots in their phones and then everybody was just copying the iPhone. For lots of people iPhone was their first smart phone and they never even looked at Android, so a large portion of the market never missed it. The others offered microSD but basically most customers valued thinner phones and phones with larger batteries higher than having a microSD slot. So generation by generation of phones less and less phones had it until nobody offered it. For manufactures it is just easier, less space needed, less moving parts, less stuff that can go wrong, easier to water proof, lower RMA rates.Modern mobile data also leads to people just storing everything in the "cloud" and not caring, shrinking the market for that even further.
>>107849066> Why did no one complain when this happened?where did you get that part from?
