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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
As much as I value the slot, I don't know that others do. In the smartphone and tablet realms, there are a lot of devices without card slots. I don't think any Apple products have card slots, yet they are wildly popular, and this is true of many of the android devices as well. My guess is that for every person who likes being about to have all their books or all their music saved on their device, there is at least one person who is rarely without some sort of cell or wifi connection that gives them access to cloud based services and doesn't want to bother with all of the management required to catalog their stuff and to move it to their devices.
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Widely popular, sure, but I know many people who went to Samsung because of expandable storage, removable battery and of course, until only a short time ago, their larger screens.
There's a reason why Sammy does better than all the other Android phone makers.
On another note, when it comes to ereaders, I think they should have an SD slot and they should have audio support. There's no reason for an ereader not to support audio books. Audio books are just another way to consume novels. We're not talking about adding video support or health apps to a reading device. Side loading should be possible because not all services have all audio books. I like to read along with recordings sometimes and one series I own adds up to something like 8gb. So what, just because it's not that popular, I should not be catered to by any company that makes ereaders?
This is the same as saying phones shouldn't include accessibility settings for the impaired because the majority doesn't need those features and it costs the company money to program those features in.