Please don't take this personally. It's not just you... over the years I've got SO annoyed by this ignorant argument & today happens to be the day I'm finally speaking up.
Soooo... Here it is: in April of this year (I don't believe sd technology has changed since then, so probably current enough...) thewirecutter did an extensive sd card review- over 8 hours of research & 15 hours of testing. They found the best SD cards to be made by Apple's primary competitor, Samsung. Their cheapest online price is likely Amazon at $18 for a 32gb card. The sequential read benchmarked at 46mb/sec & sequential write at 16mb/sec. Bear in mind, the average user would likely purchase one not quite this fast.
I haven't heard what new flash memory module is in use in the iPhone 6, so we're going to have to use the iPhone 5S (circa Sep, 2013) for this comparison. It uses an e-MMC NAND chip from Toshiba. It's rated at 90mb/sec sequential writes & 275mb/sec sequential reads. For those doing the mental math, that approximates to 1/6th the speed for 1/4th the cost, if this was an option.
Do you think apps that suddenly are taking a HUGE performance hit would NOT reflect poorly on Apple??
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Note: to be fair, according to Tom's Hardware YESTERDAY, the SanDisk Extreme Pro is now available with read/writes of up to 95mb/sec... so, same writes & 1/3 the reads. Oh, it retails from their site- $112 for 16gb.
Armed with that knowledge- tell us more about Apple's high memory prices, please....
*dripping sarcasm*
