Mmmmmkay.

Now go ahead an explain how having a microSD¹ slot may hurt someone who has a device that reads/writes data².

Not hurt shareholder value. I'm talking about people³ here.

I'll wait. Very curious to hear your perspective here.

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¹ Technology that has existed for 2+ decades at this point, is the defacto standard for removable storage in phones, laptops, cameras, audio recorders, etc, supported by devices that sell for $5 new and relied on by the highest end pro gear, current spec making it forwards and backwards compatible for the foreseeable future.

Something that takes virtually no physical space and costs virtually nothing to add to a device that already needs to operate on gigabytes of data (we're not talking about forcing that, say, on a thermostat).

² Particularly, one which can run into a "Storage full" error.

³ Physical human beings (including, but not limited to, the end users), and specifically not your (or some CEO's) feelings about it.