Google Explains Lack of SD Card Support For Nexus Devices

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[citation][nom]Prescott_666[/nom]That statement makes it clear who they are trying to sell their tablet to. Those who are too stupid to manage storage.[/citation]
Or those with other priorities. Not everyone who buys a tablet is the type of person who posts on TH...
 
[citation][nom]Prescott_666[/nom]That statement makes it clear who they are trying to sell their tablet to. Those who are too stupid to manage storage.[/citation]
They are trying to make the most money so they're going after the largest market. Makes fiscal sense.
 
And that's why they charge 100$ per 16Gb of "more" memory guys.
Flash mamory cots less than quarter of that sum, but you know, it's a special, "confusion-less" version...
 
So a SD Card is confusing, cause don't know where the data is on the phone or card. But the cloud isn't?
 
[citation][nom]archange[/nom]As dumb as it is, removing the SD slot is a common trend for Apple, Google and Microsoft. It caters to the aggressive way in which they are promoting cloud services.It pains me to see how basically any dumb idea which is promoted by Apple is almost instantly adopted by other tech companies. Even HTC are doing it in their One series...In the end, screw the consumer; what matters is market share and profit.[/citation]

Dude, idea to charge 100$ for 25$ worth of flash memory is not dumb at all.

 
[citation][nom]teamqball[/nom]This is more of a problem with the way Android stores things than the user interface being confusing. I have an LG G2x ( and will not be buying another LG product for the foreseeable future because of it, but I digress ) with an old 4gb micro sd in and when you look at the folders on a computer it makes no sense.[/citation]
That's because Linux mounts filesystems differently than windows.
 
Stupid people shouldn't be using tablets, smartphones, and computers.
 
The cloud is WAY more confusing than a microSD card. It's super easy to use an SD card. Plug it in your phone, and all your videos, music and photos can go there. The internal storage just for apps and their data.
It's not that hard. For this reason I'll continue buying Samsung phones. On the tablet side, well, if Samsung had an equivalent to Nexus 10 with microsd, I'd prefer to buy the Samsung device than the Nexus. Get an Adonit Jot /Touch and you are done.
 
Funny-- when Apple opted to leave out external storage options on the iPhone and iPad [and continued to leave them out in future versions], from the comment threads, you'd think that Steve Jobs ate a live puppy on TV during the half time show of the Super Bowl.

When Google does it, half the comments are- good idea, lets use the cloud instead.

And I'm not a fAndroid or iSheep [no smart phone and while I do have an iPad 1, my mom bought it for me :)]
 
They are just pulling an Apple and saying, "people are too stupid to use our products, so we need to baby them! And we can just release one with more memory and the idiots will buy them again and again."
 
[citation][nom]rosen380[/nom]Funny-- when Apple opted to leave out external storage options on the iPhone and iPad [and continued to leave them out in future versions], from the comment threads, you'd think that Steve Jobs ate a live puppy on TV during the half time show of the Super Bowl.When Google does it, half the comments are- good idea, lets use the cloud instead.And I'm not a fAndroid or iSheep [no smart phone and while I do have an iPad 1, my mom bought it for me ][/citation]

Still a good idea for the masses. Still a bad idea for techies. No different, except that Google is now targeting the average joe, instead of Tom's geeks...
 
If it's really that confusing, release it without any internal storage at all, and just bundle it with a 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB microSD card inside. That way everything is stored on the microSD card that it came with and if users want to upgrade, they can buy their own microSD card. herp derp!
 
[citation][nom]slabbo[/nom]If it's really that confusing, release it without any internal storage at all, and just bundle it with a 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB microSD card inside. That way everything is stored on the microSD card that it came with and if users want to upgrade, they can buy their own microSD card. herp derp![/citation]
Bingo! ...but that makes too much sense, eh?
 
I'm guessing that even a high end SD card is quite a bit slower than the soldiered on flash memory in SSDs that they use.

If it meant sacrificing 20-50% of the performance on anything relying on I/O, would you still rather have all SD storage?
 
I'd buy that excuse, if I could put all my music, videos, and such in the cloud and use them from there. I can do that with documents and photos, but have yet to see that functionality with music and videos, which take up more space than anything else.
 
[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]Windows xp warns me of degraded flash drive performance when I plug a USB 1.1 into a USB 2.0 port. Why can't Google do the same?Apple? You really think they want some users upgrading their iPads' storage capacity cheaply?[/citation]

SD cards (especially cheap ones) can lie about their rated performance.
 
who the fuck is this matias duarte :| google putting this guy as a director of user services, replace him please, this guy doesn't know what users want. maybe this guy should try work for apple
 
Meh!

That's lame. At least if they offered the bigger capacity storage version at the same pricing difference of SD cards, then why complain, but no....

That really feels like an answer Apple would provide. No points for Google.
 
Google BS. How about provide the slot and let users be the judge on whether they are able to handle SD cards or not .
 
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