>The lack of SD card is boneheaded.

How so?

It seems the Nexus 7 and an entire lines of Apple devices have done just fine without expandable storage.

I certainly understand why folks want the option, but as demonstrated, being able to charge a premium for different tiers of internal storage works wonders for profit margins.

I have the Nexus 7 and as I replied to another comment it is extremely frustrating dealing with only 16GB of space. Being able to pop in a 32GB SD card would alleviate a lot of my issues, especially during travel.

This annoys me a bit less on my Galaxy Nexus as I don't typically install large games (> 1GB) on it.

Devices can do fine without expandable storage, sure - but it's an easy differentiator for Android to make, and is one of the reasons I bought into the platform to begin with.

No it's not. You could do fine with 8GB. I used to have a device with that capacity, and it had a lot of games on it.

Now I, on the other hand, have to deal with a (Samsung) android phone running Gingerbread, which with the Facebook app installed, and all Android updates installed, complains about having run out of internal storage.

I have the 16GB Nexus 7. Installing Batman (1.83GB), Horn(1.74GB), and Bard's Tale (3.5GB with best graphics) at the same time hits me pretty hard. It's pretty frustrating to shuffle apps just because I want to play a different game, especially when the downloads are in the GB.

Apps are that big now? I guess it being a Tablet makes the filesizes huge.