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They already extorted Android OEMs using exFat patents for billions, might as well try to look nice.
by TwoNineA 7y ago
They already extorted Android OEMs using exFat patents for billions, might as well try to look nice.
- MaupitiBlue 7y agoI always chuckled at the joke: Who makes more money off of the sale of each Android device, Google or Microsoft?
- mtgx 7y agoExactly. They are likely doing this because smartphone makers were already moving away from supporting as cards. The patents will likely expire soon too.
- swiley 7y agoAs much as I hate the patent bullying Android should have never used FAT for ANYTHING. The stupidity around that continues to make everyone's lives hard to this day.
- lern_too_spel 7y agoIf you want an SD card that is also readable by the digital camera ecosystem, what choice do you have?
- jdnenej 7y agoHow often are people taking a microSD card from their camera and putting it in their phone considering on a lot of devices this means pulling the battery out. Also they could support fat while not having the main system storage using fat.
- vetinari 7y agoMain system storage didn't use FAT; /sdcard did.
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- Piskvorrr 7y agoReading external flash media becomes hard if you don't have FAT support. But agreed, anything internal should have used a sane filesystem (I know that's hard to find. At least an open one: I see ext* used internally, but FAT32 for removable flash).
- tveita 7y agoYou need to support it if you want to properly support removable SD cards. Microsoft managed to make their patent encumbered exFAT file system a required part of the SDXC card spec, just as their much-abused patents on FAT32 were expiring. I guess it is gracious of them to partially undo the damage they've done, now that they have given up on Windows Phone.