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Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? by lotsofpulp on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:55AM (#19522217)
The vast majority of people are leveraging them, to do the things they want to do, such as taking photos, video calling, navigation, checking email, visiting websites, listening and watching media.

What the vast majority of people also don't want to do is spend time and effort dealing with malware. Hence the success of locked down systems.

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Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? by kerng on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:17AM (#19522404)
True, but that experience can be offered with a fraction of the prize for consumers - maybe that's where breakthroughs could happen. Cheap "feature" phones for the masses again.
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Re:The Death of External Storage: Where's Google? by TeMPOraL on Friday March 29, 2019 @08:13PM (#19526690)
> The vast majority of people are leveraging them, to do the things they want to do, such as taking photos, video calling, navigation, checking email, visiting websites, listening and watching media.

In frustration and at 25% or less of the actual capability, because of stupid design choices that destroy interoperability. This is mostly a consequence of an app market of selfish independent actors, but at least the operating system could encourage more interop, instead of trying to destroy it.

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