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Do people still use SD cards? I am fairly certain my kids have no idea what they are.

I guess some hardcore photographers still swap SD cards in and out all the time. An area where wifi and cloud sync seems slow to proliferate.

I have a few cards hiding in some drawers somewhere and some stuck in an old SLR camera I have not turned on in a few years. But I literally have not seen any SD cards for a long time. And floppy disks... :)




I bet you only own iPhones :) All Androids I owned so far had micro-SD card slots.


There are actual several Android without slots. Including my OnePlus 5. But you do have the choice. I don't require a lot of storage (I just recently upgraded my desktop to over 1TB of space) so I'm fine with the 32 GB or whatever it is I get on board.


Yes well, I always make sure my phone have expansion slots. I would never buy something I can't expand without having to buy a completely new thing.


That's what I think is great. That everyone can chose what they want. I'd never need a storage extension before I'd want other things extended: GPU, CPU, RAM. Sadly those aren't extendable, so I'll buy new devices anyway and can reevaluate my storage needs


Oh, I was quite pissed at Apple back when I swapped my android phone for an iPhone and couldn't add an sd card. But just ordered enough built-in memory and 4-5 years on that was probably the last time I thought about SD cards.


I have an SD card slot in most point in shoots or micro SD. All my DSLRs that I’ve shot with offer CF as well.

It turns out, moving a few gigabytes of data is easier on an SD card, than having to do an iPhone style cloud transfer, especially if you’re shooting in bumfuck nowhere. Also, being able to carry a bunch of cards is handy.

Maybe it’s just a matter of binning, but I find CF cards to be way more reliable.


The amount of extra storage you can get on a phone by adding an SD card is quite liberating.


Yeah, it's much cheaper to buy a phone with a little built-in storage and add an SD card than to buy a phone with enough storage in the first place.


Yeah. Anything embedded, and if it has storage beyond on-die flash, microSD/microTF is it. People still use floppies, FWIW...and faxes shudder.




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