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Originally Posted by ApK
Something I learned over the past few years, thanks to all the manufacturing updates from various Kicktarters: Adding a hole of any kind to a device, or letting something open and close, when you could otherwise just glue it closed, adds not only to the design and manufacturing cost and time, but also most significantly adds to the support costs of the device, from addressing issues when the wrong thing ends up in the hole or when users otherwise break something or do something the designers didn't anticipate.
Hackers who willingly take the risk of doing unsupported stuff are not the bulk of consumers.
So even if there was no cost to the slot itself, say if there is already an sd slot in the device for it's own use, the cost of exposing it to the user and supporting the various things a user might stick into it, will absolutely raise the cost.
Now, as for the price that manufacturers charge for the expanded built-in memory....that's horrible, don't get me started.
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9 out 0f 10 times people put cases on the devices and there is no opening or easy access to the sdcard. I know that I have to remove all my cases to get to the sdcard slot.
Glued cases are why you can't replace batteries and why landfills are filling up with too much tech that could be used otherwise.
Again, then why is Amazon releasing a $50 tablet with an sdcard slot along with its other new tablets?