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Originally Posted by afv011
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.
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All that assumes that it was cost that prevented the inclusion of the SD slot. There is no reason to believe that it was.