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Nearly all manufacturers are moving away from removable storage in phones. For the majority of users, it complicates things, and can lead to nasty edge cases i
by victorhooi 10y ago
Nearly all manufacturers are moving away from removable storage in phones.
For the majority of users, it complicates things, and can lead to nasty edge cases if they don't understand it.
Note that iPhones have never offered removable storage.
Also, SD cards can often be of dubious quality. Even good quality ones would never be as good as the NVMe (or similar) SSDs now used in high-end phones.
Put it this way - for your laptop, would you rather a NVMe SSD, or a MicroSD card you bought from Amazon? One is going to have much more predictable write performance under varying conditions, and you know will last. The other, well...I know what I'm trusting my data to.
- shostack 10y agoThere's definitely a contingent (perhaps even larger so outside the US) where SD storage is important. The question is whether that group is large enough to create sufficient demand for a removable storage phone beyond the desire of these companies to drive adoption and lock in with their respective cloud services.