Comment by pzo
1 year ago
Which iPhone has microSD support? Macbooks only recently (starting from from m1) have sd card slot and only most expensive macbooks pro. 1-2 years ago they were still selling macbook pro starting with 128GB ssd and of course they are soldered. At one point when buying iphone they allowed you to choose one with 64GB or ... 256GB even if I wanted 128GB.
And for me its no problem - I sync photos with my macbook photos and remove from phone. But not everybody has Macbook. Support for syncing on windows used to be totally terrible - there was no syncing just download all photos with arbitrary names and folder names.
On top of that when syncing iphone with macbook by accident you forgot to check on this small box "delete synced medias from iphone" you will have to delete all photos one by one selecting... there is not option like delete all photos - ridiculous.
Samsung A series phones have SD card slots.
Most smartphones are not iPhones.
Also, iPhones support numerous photo upload/sync/remote storage solutions. You don’t have to use Apple’s solution.
Google Photos, Nextcloud, Immich, etc etc etc.
> iPhones support numerous photo upload/sync/remote storage solutions
That really doesn’t help you with apps though…
the whole conversation is about Santader and other apps on iOS being heavy so not sure how info about Samsung A series have SD is helpful in this context. Other syncing app on iOS have serious API limitation what can do compared Apple app.
It's also not only about storage. It's wasteful to make app upgrades that are several GB altogether each time - both for user bandwidth and apple server bandwidth (especially when they talk so much about ecology)