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  • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    946·
    1 year ago

    We need SD cards more. They removed them so they can charge you 300 $ to upgrade 128gb and to force you into shitty cloud service.

    Again, just anti consumer bullshit spearheaded by Apple and gargled by Samsung.

    • el_bhm@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      I have flashbacks to using external storage on Android. It was such a shit show of an API. That being said, external storage, to break away from cloud storage is the next needed thing. We need to own the data.

      • beigegull@lemmy.worldEnglish
        281·
        1 year ago

        When you design an OS to pretend there’s no such thing as a file, it ends up being bad at handling files.

        • Croquette@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, even today, browsing through files on Android is a fucking mess. And there isn’t an SD card.

          So the SD card wasn’t the problem

            • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Which did away with the headphone jack and asks €400 for crap performance.

              Nah I’m sticking to my Samsung XCover

              • LUHG@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Xperia IV aren’t crap performance but they are 3x €400

                It was the SOC that wasn’t great. Nothing to do with the manufacturers.

                • Fonzie!@ttrpg.networkEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Ah, I had the Experia XZ Compact before, the performance was awful, even when I didn’t have high expectations.
                  It even had trouble just web browsing static, textual webpages.

                  The camera was really good, but that was the only thing I was happy with.

                  Either way, the fact that your good Sony phone is around € 1200 speaks volumes.

                  • LUHG@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    11·
                    1 year ago

                    Either way, you could spend the same amount on an iPhone or a Samsung. Failing to see your point here.

    • chaircat@lemdro.idEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Again, just anti consumer bullshit spearheaded by Apple and gargled by Samsung.

      Samsung was actually one of the later Android manufacturers to drop it is my recollection.