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| james_s:
--- Quote from: IanB on December 07, 2021, 01:27:57 am ---I think the disappearance of SD cards is surely due to pervasive availability of wireless networking and cloud storage? My current phone has a 5G data speed about the same as my wired ISP. It seems like you only need to keep things in local storage that you have an immediate need for. Other things can stay in the cloud. How many movies or podcasts can you watch during one plane ride? --- End quote --- I don't store anything on the cloud, especially things like photos, videos and other content that I've created, local-only. Wireless spectrum is a precious commodity that is always in short supply, we should not be wasting it storing stuff that can be stored locally, memory is cheap. |
| David Hess:
--- Quote from: IanB on December 07, 2021, 01:27:57 am ---I think the disappearance of SD cards is surely due to pervasive availability of wireless networking and cloud storage? --- End quote --- SD card support is an extra expense and of less utility now that large amounts of storage can be included inside the phone. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: IanB on December 07, 2021, 01:27:57 am --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 06, 2021, 11:56:39 pm ---I have swapped screens on a couple of "sealed" phones, I am not completely unfamiliar with the types of adhesives used. - I dislike the combination of a sealed battery, wireless-only headphones, and no SD card. The modern flagship phones have much better computing performance, but no (or crappy) peripherals! :D --- End quote --- I think the disappearance of SD cards is surely due to pervasive availability of wireless networking and cloud storage? My current phone has a 5G data speed about the same as my wired ISP. It seems like you only need to keep things in local storage that you have an immediate need for. Other things can stay in the cloud. How many movies or podcasts can you watch during one plane ride? --- End quote --- Cloud storage is another way to lock the customer in... who's going to change away from a vendor's cloud system once their family photos and videos are all stored there, and shared with other family members that way? Big Tech will become like banks - where consumers are more likely to get divorced than switch bank! :D So of course, the vendors don't want to give us an easy and cheap way to manage our own information, when they can collect it and sell it back to us for all eternity. They also don't want to give us a simple headphone jack, when they can instead keep selling us expensive wireless earbuds designed to last a few years... You may think I am being overly critical of the current state of the smartphone market, but the reality is that my desires as a consumer are not being met by any vendor... I want a durable, quality product with an analog audio jack, expandable storage (SD card), and an easily replaceable battery - but the Phone Cartel has decided that they want me locked in as a paying customer for all eternity and are designing their products predominantly with that goal in mind, rather than what I would enjoy owning and using. |
| Miyuki:
You can buy a laptop with an accessible battery even dual hot-swappable. The main reason for having a swappable battery was in the past when you have 2 hours' worth of it when you were lucky. Now when you can easily have 10 or more is it not an issue. Yet still can get it if you want. It adds mechanical problems and contacts can wear down fast. Also, most laptops are now thinner than 18650. Yet even internal one is easy to replace and are widely available. Same with the phones. Do you remember old worn squeaky ones? Modern glued ones just feel more rugged (even when the display is somewhat brittle). But how often do you change the battery? Like one in 3-4 years? A big chunk of people does not use phones that long. Yet battery can be changed reasonably. And phone SD card? Do we really need one? Do you want to hoard hundreds of gigabytes of valuable data in the device that can be easily destroyed, lost, stolen ... And they have plenty of internal storage anyway. And I can agree with the argument SD cards can significantly degrade phone performance compared to internal storage. As even fast ones are rather slow for random access. And people will use slow ones and complain. And never had many issues with a "planned obsolescence". The worst case I had was a Microsoft/Nokia phone, where they kill windows mobile and is barely usable even as a dumb phone now. But otherways 4+ year iPhone 7 just need a new battery. Lenovo laptops work fine even old T430. It is ancient yet daily use and just need a third keyboard ::) Home appliances work. Last exchanged was Fridge and Dryer, both about 20 years. 20 Year old car also works. Even when not looking nice. I use it like once a week so no need to fancy one. |
| Miyuki:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 07, 2021, 05:53:20 am ---You may think I am being overly critical of the current state of the smartphone market, but the reality is that my desires as a consumer are not being met by any vendor... I want a durable, quality product with an analog audio jack, expandable storage (SD card), and an easily replaceable battery - but the Phone Cartel has decided that they want me locked in as a paying customer for all eternity and are designing their products predominantly with that goal in mind, rather than what I would enjoy owning and using. --- End quote --- All that efforts ended bankrupt because people do not buy them. You can choose from a gazillion Asian brands. But you can still get even like Samsung Galaxy Xcover it has everything you want and is a "brand" Where is the problem? :-// |
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