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Originally Posted by kaufman
Don't get me wrong. I think the SD slots was an unneeded idea, and I have no problem with them getting rid of it, but I think you are painting this too black and white.
If the next model of your Bluray player doesn't include backward compatibility with standard DVDs, won't you say that Sony (or whoever makes your Bluray player) removed that feature? When OSX 10.6 (I think) no longer would run on Powerpc computers, wouldn't we say that they removed support for the older architecture.
When Amazons comes out with the newer models of the Kindle, they sometimes remove certain features that had been on the older Models. Just because we agree with their decision (as I have in each case), doesn't mean that they haven't removed features from the line.
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I do not disagree.
But remember, this goes back to this comment:
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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
While this may be true that older people or atechnical ones do not know about an SDcard, but this is not a reason to strip it out.
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It's not merely matter of prepositional semantics, which can be correct from either perspective. It's a matter of feeling like you had something stolen from you vs acknowledging that there is a new product that simply wasn't designed with some features that you would like it to have.
I would not buy that Sony bluray player without the DVD compatibility, because I have a lot of DVDs. I'd buy a
Kobo LG player that did have the feature I wanted.
If I didn't have DVDs, that feature may not be important to me, and I might buy that player based on it's price/features compared to my needs.
If the market in general stops caring about DVDs and buys mostly players that can't play them, I would expect for most manufactures to stop including that feature in most models.