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Originally Posted by Fluribus
It isn't necessary, but it does make the procedure less worrisome for the uninitiated.
Google is not the worst offender. But no offender gets my money. I don't use streaming and the prospect of constantly shuffling stuff between my PC and a tablet is insufferable when popping in a tiny card is so much simpler.
I don't care about the HDMI. The only reason my ancient and doddering Dell Axim PDA is still of any use is because it has an SD slot.
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A lot of people that haven't been through the historical process (for myself) of 8", 5 1/4", 3 1/2" floppies and then 120MB LS floppies 100MB I omega disks, external drives with ext power 60 to 750GB, external drives with USB port power - 1Tetra Byte , USB flash drives from 250MB to 32GB in my case, SDs and xDs 2GB to 32GB, have bought the
cloud spiel that "the force (data and connectivity) will always be with you" and forget about power availability, WiFi availability, and Cellular availability.
In their little cocoons which mostly work until something unexpected happens, they feel safe and happy, especially if they spend $2500 to $3000 every 2 years to have a nice smartphone and a cellular data plan.
I liken these systems to fast low slung sports cars that are beautiful and run like hell until the pavement ends or a pothole appears.
Sure those cocoons will work most of the time as long as you frequent your usual stomping grounds and tourist venues where they seek to provide you with all your desires, but if you wish to be thrifty or wish to actually presume that you will not have connection all the time then a simple $2 or less SD card slot would be nice.
The reason Google and Amazon and others are pushing the cloud is that they want their customers/users to be caught in their spider web of commercialism.
I for one resent this attitude.