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View Poll Results: Does lack of SD card support effect you're buying of the Nexus 7? | |||
Yes, I'm not buying because of this. | 101 | 41.91% | |
No, not a problem at all. | 61 | 25.31% | |
I'm buying the 16GB because of this. | 34 | 14.11% | |
I'm not in the market for a tablet, but I like to vote. | 45 | 18.67% | |
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07-12-2012, 06:40 AM | #226 | |
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And whay should be included in the first place on a computer? Serial port? Parallell port? Floppy disk? DVD? Bluearay? CF-card reader? ... And I really like to be able to buy a tablet and not having to give any money to Microsoft. |
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The same card can go from phone to media player to tablet. I already have cards and management is very easy. No further investment needed. |
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It boils down to personal preference at the end of the day. I'm sure that the Nexus will be enormously successful. Personally, I prefer to have a device with a card slot. There's room in the marketplace for both.
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The simple fact is, leaving hardware (and even, just 'features' really, for less concrete reasons) is cheaper than putting them in. It adds money, it adds complexity, it adds support issues, it adds points of failure, and people will and should choose to spend their money on the particular hw or feature set that is important to them. Hans, you seem to be missing that the success of the Fire and the iThing line proves that many MANY people simple could not care less about an SD card slot, and they should not be forced to subsides the including of one just because YOU (the set who think it's critically important) say it should just be there always. You say there is nothing to lose, but there is. Even if the directly observable losses are negligible, the real loss would be market forces pushing in a direction that other people just don't want or need it to go. |
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I see the success of devices without an expansion slot are the result of marketing campaigns that managed to pull wool over people's eyes, convincing them that this is not needed. Especially considering that we (the users) could easily have this included for the same price. Of course, device makers like to save money, however insignificant it may seem. And it gives them a chance to lock a lot of users into their cloud.
It is a slippery slope, if we let them get away with this they will take that strategy further. Some ideas: 1.Reduce onboard memory to 4 or even 2 GB 2.No Bluetooth 3.Old WiFi modules For me it is like reducing the size of a milk carton from a quart to 0.9 quart for the same price. And people's response being: "oh, that is enough for me. If I have more I will get too fat, anyway." |
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Then later on, another 8 oz were shaved off and we had 48 oz selling at the 56 oz price. Anyone notice this? Again, the cartons got thinner. Displays looked the same. In total, consumers took a 25% hit on ice cream, as it went from 4 pints to 3 pints. Don't you just love sneaky price hikes? |
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07-12-2012, 08:49 AM | #237 | |
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There are many people who actually don't care about it. Now because big bad Apple has clouded their minds, just because it isn't something they care about. |
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The Fire proved that not EVERYBODY needs those things, which is precisely the point.
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07-12-2012, 09:53 AM | #239 |
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I may be threading the needle, but ...
The dealbreaker for me is more the dependence on Wi-Fi. I live in an area where there just aren't many public wi-fi spots (free or otherwise). So, the next tier of dealing with content would be to have removable storage, which it also lacks. Admittedly, there are other strategies that would make the Nexus livable for me, but when I'm on plan C right out of the box, I'm not considering it a top contender for me in this category. |
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There's like 2 or 3 Android device companies who haven't caved to Microsoft's extortion and paid up for a license they don't actually need to buy, so finding a tablet that doesn't pay Microsoft is going to be difficult.
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