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The floppy disk icon is scheduled for deletion the same year that we stop dialing our phones.
by Stratoscope 8y ago
The floppy disk icon is scheduled for deletion the same year that we stop dialing our phones.
- Asooka 8y agoRight after we stop using "dashboard", eh. I doubt anyone here (me included) has ever seen a real dashboard.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoIsn't that like saying "I doubt anyone here has ever seen a real ladder" because ladders aren't made out of coppiced staves but instead are formed from aluminium? [Dashboards originally were wide mud-guards on the front of house drawn wagons, the same feature was fitted to early cars, eg Peugeot 2.]
- taneq 8y agoThe instrument panel in front of the driver in a car is still a 'real' dashboard.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoNot in the 'original' sense of the word, which was the point: status webpages are twice removed from the original meaning.
- kijin 8y agoOnly to be replaced with an "SD card" icon, which looks surprisingly similar to a floppy disk.
- flurdy 8y agoDo people still use SD cards? I am fairly certain my kids have no idea what they are. I guess some hardcore photographers still swap SD cards in and out all the time. An area where wifi and cloud sync seems slow to proliferate. I have a few cards hiding in some drawers somewhere and some stuck in an old SLR camera I have not turned on in a few years. But I literally have not seen any SD cards for a long time. And floppy disks... :)
- sorokod 8y agoThe amount of extra storage you can get on a phone by adding an SD card is quite liberating.
- kijin 8y agoYeah, it's much cheaper to buy a phone with a little built-in storage and add an SD card than to buy a phone with enough storage in the first place.
- Moru 8y agoI bet you only own iPhones :) All Androids I owned so far had micro-SD card slots.
- Semaphor 8y agoThere are actual several Android without slots. Including my OnePlus 5. But you do have the choice. I don't require a lot of storage (I just recently upgraded my desktop to over 1TB of space) so I'm fine with the 32 GB or whatever it is I get on board.
- Moru 8y agoYes well, I always make sure my phone have expansion slots. I would never buy something I can't expand without having to buy a completely new thing.
- Semaphor 8y agoThat's what I think is great. That everyone can chose what they want. I'd never need a storage extension before I'd want other things extended: GPU, CPU, RAM. Sadly those aren't extendable, so I'll buy new devices anyway and can reevaluate my storage needs
- flurdy 8y agoOh, I was quite pissed at Apple back when I swapped my android phone for an iPhone and couldn't add an sd card. But just ordered enough built-in memory and 4-5 years on that was probably the last time I thought about SD cards.