Looks like Google have a politic to drop support for external storage and push the cloud (or force it on us depending of your PoV), same story on Android: https

Looks like Google have a politic to drop support for external storage and push the cloud (or force it on us depending of your PoV), same story on Android: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=65974 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=65974