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Originally Posted by Shane R
There are engineering benefits to foregoing the slot. It's not entirely about shafting the customer.
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Indeed, but I think customer benefit should dramaticly outweigh them if not for the shafting.
The kind of data that most folks use on a smartphone--hires photos, videos, music--is big, and needs space.
It can be argued that Amazon figures most users will never fill the 2 or 4 gb on an eink kindle so the slot would only serve a small segement of users, but smartphone makers know darn well smartphone uses will need More and more space, and they want you to pay through the nose...one way or the other...for it. Grr!