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Originally Posted by HansTWN
A huge step forward for Apple and Google on the road to ripping us off (a slot adds less than 2 dollars to the cost, but forces us to stay in the cloud or buy their accessories.) A giant leap backwards for user.
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Margins are very tight. Once a company I worked for was even looking at the number of screws used on a mobile phone to reduce costs - and a screw costs way less than $2, so $2 is not an insignificant amount of money, especially if you expect to ship large volumes of devices. I also would prefer to have SD slot, but I understand that some sacrifices have to be made to reach the $200 price point, and I rather they sacrified the SD slot than skimp on the CPU or screen or RAM.