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Manufacturers probably prefer extra USB ports to a dedicated SD slot since it occupies less internal space than an SD slot and is not single purpose.

• qwerty456127 5y ago
  Doesn't seem so to me. They just rarely put more than 3 USB ports and there doesn't seem to be any obvious correlation between the number and lack/presence of the SD port.
  • google234123 5y ago
    Are usb sticks typically faster and cheaper than SD cards or am I remembering this wrong?
    • Macha 5y ago
      You can get usb sticks that are faster than top end SD cards because you can just put an entire SSD, dram cache and controller included in a usb device, but the average usb stick and average SD card are equally poor