You’re a lot more optimistic about the motives than I am.
I’m convinced big tech being able to make more money selling you other storage options instead of allowing you to just expand it yourself with a much cheaper SD card is at least 90 percent of why sd cards stopped being a thing on phones.
Cloud storage will have had some effect on demand but read/write speeds are not a variable if you just store a bunch of music and photo’s on the SD card. Read write speeds to the cloud are also trash compared to internal storage.
Same story with the headphone jack.
It’s not that people didn’t use it, there was definately still an audience for it and it’s a part that costs pennies.
But axing it boosts the sale of Bluetooth gear.
It’s not a coincidence that Apple and Samsung led the charge here, they sell tons of accessoires.
Low read speeds and saving to cloud has driven consumer’s demand down.
And big Tech’s greed took over, charging multiple times the cost for phones with bigger saving space and removing microSD so you have no option.
You’re a lot more optimistic about the motives than I am.
I’m convinced big tech being able to make more money selling you other storage options instead of allowing you to just expand it yourself with a much cheaper SD card is at least 90 percent of why sd cards stopped being a thing on phones.
Cloud storage will have had some effect on demand but read/write speeds are not a variable if you just store a bunch of music and photo’s on the SD card. Read write speeds to the cloud are also trash compared to internal storage.
Same story with the headphone jack. It’s not that people didn’t use it, there was definately still an audience for it and it’s a part that costs pennies. But axing it boosts the sale of Bluetooth gear.
It’s not a coincidence that Apple and Samsung led the charge here, they sell tons of accessoires.
It’s not that I’m optimistic, it’s just that people didn’t take notice because of the lower demand. Especially when the base phones were at 128GB.
I mean I personally haven’t thought of microSD the past 10 years. Old phone had 64GB and now 128GB.
The only way to get limited is by installing large games or software that microSD maybe suck at compared to internal storage.
Cloud took a portion of used space and made your phone to have more space than before, not that is faster or anything.
Companies just took advantage to skyrocket profits as always.