Will Apple ever add a micro SD slot to the iPad? It would make the tablet much more useful to be able to quickly and easily transfer files to it, without having to deal with cables or slow wifi file transfer. It would also make it easier to store lots of files on the tablet. Samsung does this with the Galaxy phones and tablets and it makes them very useful.
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Not likely.
A look at the iPhone profit margins will tell you why.
It costs Apple $187 to make a 16GB iPhone 5.. and it costs them $209 to make a 64GB iPhone 5. That's a difference of $16 for what they charge $200 for. They want you to buy the bigger one so they can put more money in their pocket.
A look at the iPhone profit margins will tell you why.
It costs Apple $187 to make a 16GB iPhone 5.. and it costs them $209 to make a 64GB iPhone 5. That's a difference of $16 for what they charge $200 for. They want you to buy the bigger one so they can put more money in their pocket.
I looked this up a while ago. Adding an SD card would play havoc with iTunes syncing. Makes sense to me, but so does the profit motive behind charging an additional $300 for an iPad with enough storage to make it useful....
Never.
Never. Apple is trying to eliminate the concept of a file. Therefore they have no interest in making file transfers easy.
What Apple wants is a computing ecosystem where your "stuff" is out there somewhere, and which you can can easily get from within whatever app you used to create that "stuff", and from whatever Apple device you're currently using.
You think of your stuff as files that you can manipulate (copy, move, duplicate, open) using an operating system and a file manager. But Apple wants to kill that as it adds a layer of learning needed.
Never. Apple is trying to eliminate the concept of a file. Therefore they have no interest in making file transfers easy.
What Apple wants is a computing ecosystem where your "stuff" is out there somewhere, and which you can can easily get from within whatever app you used to create that "stuff", and from whatever Apple device you're currently using.
You think of your stuff as files that you can manipulate (copy, move, duplicate, open) using an operating system and a file manager. But Apple wants to kill that as it adds a layer of learning needed.
You must not own a Samsung Galaxy product. I have an S4 and the micro SD card is next to useless. You can't store Apps, music or movies/TV shows it. You can only use it for camera pictures and camera videos.
"They" (Apple) don't charge $200 (or $300) for it, the cell carriers do. Apple gets paid a lot more than $200. The cell carriers subsidize the full amount of the phone. When YOU pay $650 for the unsubsidized phone (no carrier contract) that's close to the real amount Apple gets in the end (less the carrier's wholesale discount). Don't think for a second Apple ONLY gets $200 when you buy a phone with service. The CARRIER pays the difference between the $200 you pay and their wholesale cost of the phone that Apple charges (whatever that is, but substantially MORE than $200).
Actually I own a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 and a Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. The micro SD slot is extremely useful. You can plug it into your computer and copy pictures, movies, files to it and access them from your device. You can tell the camera to store pictures there. You can also set apps to use the micro SD space as storage instead of built-in device storage. It really adds a lot of flexibility to the device.
He's saying $200 more from one storage size to another, not subsidized device cost through a carrier.
Well stated. Apple's thrust with iOS is a whole different paradigm, one that doesn't include messing with a filesystem. One implication is you're not going to see removable storage on an iOS device.
Put your stuff on iCloud or dropbox or similar.
That's wrong, you can absolutely store media like TV shows, movies and music. And I understand app support is coming back in a future version of Android OS.
It costs them $187 to make the last iPhone. The first was tens of millions. Nobody factors that in.
A layer of learning? to copy and move a few files? I understand that many users are very casual and dont want to deal with the inner workings of a file system but lets not go overboard!
To answer the OP - Nope. No sd cards, USBs or any of that. Apple doesnt play that way and it is what it is.
Is it just me or does anyone else come up with $22 instead of $16?
Oh hush you! *beats with pillow*
I doubt it, but if they ever will, they will do it the possibly impending iPad Pro announcement. But, if that product never happens then absolutely not. They want you to use cloud management for files and I don't see that changing.
They probably never will. What irritates me is that the entry level is still at 16GB. With the amount of apps and the 1080p HD videos/pics it fills up pretty fast. I do not see how it will hurt them to drop the 16GB and up the storage configs to 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB.