XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.mobile.android   
   From: confused@nospam.net   
      
   AJL  wrote:   
      
   >>So my statements remain backed up that Google & Apple don't provide what   
   >>over three quarters of Samsung phones provide, and Samsung is clearly the   
   >>best seller on the market bar none (Apple iPhones don't even come close).   
   >   
   > I guess it's how one reads your original statement. When one compares Apple   
   >  and Google phones I think most folks think Android phones with Google   
   >  installed. But you are correct if you mean only Google Pixel phones. I   
   >  guess what threw me off is that would leave out the majority of the   
   >  non-Apple market, many with no slots. Shouldn't they have required some of   
   >  your wrath too?   
      
   I'm glad you clarified and I apologize for not fully understanding you.   
      
   I think we're both communicating well now, given how conversations go.   
   When you said 'Google', I didn't realize you had maybe meant 'Android'.   
      
   When I think of a "Google phone", I think of the Pixel model only.   
   But you were apparently thinking of Google's Android OS - which is fine.   
      
   The beauty of Android is if you *want* the sdcard slot, you can get it.   
   Most Android's sold are Samsung & 75% of the Samsung models have the slot.   
      
   Maybe that's why most Android's sold are Samsungs in the first place. :)   
      
   >>I wonder if people buy Samsungs because they don't have the strategy of   
   >>fleecing them by removing hardware so that the consumer has to buy it back?   
   >   
   > I bought my Samsung phone over 5 years ago and I can't remember what my   
   >  reasons were for buying it over other brands. But I can tell you it is   
   >  still a virgin. I've never had any need to stick anything in it's slot...   
      
   If you don't need the memory, the slot doesn't help or hurt you.   
   But if you need the memory, NOT having the slot hurts you a lot.   
      
   Fundamentally, everything else being equal, a phone without the slot is   
   clearly a substandard phone to one that has the slot. That's pure logic.   
      
   I'm use to people making the argument that a worse phone is better.   
   But they don't know anything about basic logic since that makes no sense.   
      
   A phone with the slot, everything else being equal, can not only do   
   EVERYTHING that the phone without the slot can do, but it can do more.   
      
   And what it can do no phone on the planet without a slot can hope to do.   
   That's worth a lot when you need it; and it's worth nothing if you don't.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)