OK here is the argument I will make:
Unlike say removable batteries, Micro SD cards are things "normal" people use and are used to. Many devices use them, copying to them is super easy, and phones had them before they got smart.
Why drop a feature that has such broad support? The reason Micro SDs are cheap is economy of scale.
Google Play Music now officially supports SD storage.
considering almost all reviews of phones (that lack mSD card) complaint about the lack of mSD support, I don't think Anand and Klug are losing any sleep over Verge's Moto G review.
He also said that his 5.0 GB music collection was "quite large." He is obviously in touch.
You're running out of arguments if you are falling back on a phone review from the verge. Their hardware reviews have gotten downright lousy in the last year.
You lack reading comprehension, and your pointless crusade clouds your judgment.
Look again - you spectacularly missed what the lesson is.
But then again, I'm not entirely surprised, judging from your contribution to this thread.
Google Play Music now officially supports SD storage.
Yeah, you can set it to download to microSD now.
Just started updating today, so you may not have it. There's an article at Android Police.
You can now cache or download directly onto the SD card slot. Great stuff.
Allow me to copy and paste some relevant passages from a Verge review of the Moto G budget phone - found here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/2/5156546/moto-g-review
"Another change can be found in internal storage, which has dropped from 16GB or 32GB of storage in the Moto X down to 8GB or 16GB. The 8GB version I tested has around 5.5GB of storage for your apps, photos, and music, and theres no microSD slot for expansion. Given the Moto Gs pretensions as a phone for the masses, this is something of an oversight. A capacious microSD can be picked up from retailers across the world for a few dollars, and a slot for expandable storage is an important feature to many.
Even for me, storage posed an issue; after syncing my (admittedly quite large) music collection over to the phone, I was left with just 500MB free. Google may want people to use its cloud services instead of local storage, but if thats not always practical in the US, its a near impossibility in other countries."
Do you see the bolded parts? Even though The Verge is usually pro-Apple (with everything that such a choice entails!), they're smart enough to realize that you simply can't judge technology according solely to U.S. standards.
And that, I'm afraid, is a lesson lost on Anand and Brian.
i find it laughable that guy thinks he has a large music collection at 5 GB.
Yeah just got the update myself.
Was a bit worried when it said "for kitkat devices" but it works fine on my S3 4.1.2.
i find it laughable that guy thinks he has a large music collection at 5 GB.
Google Play Music now officially supports SD storage.
+1000!!!After reading Anand's and Brian's latest diatribe against microSD and removable batteries, my esteem for both has truly plummeted. Anand and Brian know their technology, but no longer even pretend to advocate for their users.
They clearly consider themselves to be marketing arms of the mobile device industry rather than advocates for the users that keep the lights on here.
As for why they spend more time fetishizing the outer encasements of mobile devices rather than actual hardware features, well, perhaps both were jewelery aficionados in a prior life. It's really odd and sad to see such a well respected technology site devote so much energy on the fashion of devices, while overtly triumphing their disdain for actual hardware features.
Come on guys. Get back to the hardware, away from the fashion, and far, far away from the mobile-device marketing drones.
It only works for certain selected areas and not outside the USA