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Did Apple have to kill the card slot to support iCloud ? No. Why then? Lock-in, that's why. Like someone else on this thread rightly said, Impracticality is
by sh87 8y ago
Did Apple have to kill the card slot to support iCloud ?
No. Why then?
Lock-in, that's why.
Like someone else on this thread rightly said, Impracticality is the feature here and clearly intentional.
Apple may have gained customers like yourself. They sure have lost customers like me.
- danaris 8y agoApple didn't "kill" anything. No iPhone has ever had an SD card slot. And to the best of my knowledge, the main reason wasn't lock-in or planned obsolescence: it was Steve Jobs' desire for as little as possible to get in the way of the aesthetic and design of the iPhone. Sure, you may find that to be a dumb reason, but it's a far cry from the cartoon villain a lot of people seem to enjoy making Apple out to be, rubbing its hands together with a cackling laugh as it sits on its mountain of money. (...Well, the mountain of money part is true, actually.)