XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.mobile.android   
   From: confused@nospam.net   
      
   Isaac Montara  wrote:   
      
   > Both Apple & Google don't want you to have inexpensive reliable storage.   
   > Can you guess why?   
      
   ooooh ooooh oooh (raises hand and flags down the professor)...   
   Let me guess.   
      
   Apple gives you 5GB of "free" cloud storage for your 256GB device, which   
   means you have to multiply that 5GB by about 50 times to store your stuff.   
      
   If you want to expand your storage about 200GB, both Apple & Google will   
   charge you the same low low incredibly low (act fast!) monthly fee of only   
   a mere pittance of $2.99 per month, which is about $36 for a year (which,   
   incidentally, is about how much any similar sized sd card would have cost).   
      
   But then you need that storage for ten years (or whatever), so now that   
   one-time NRE of ~$36 would have saved you ~$360 dollars paying for storage.   
      
   Since both Apple & Google benefit to the tune of a few hundred dollars per   
   each person who owns their devices has to pay them, it makes sense why they   
   don't spend the couple of bucks it would cost for them to put an sdslot in.   
      
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