Comments by "Andre Gon" (@andregon4366) on "TechAltar" channel.

@metrillbeats First point is ridiculous. Especially if the SD card slot is in the same slot as the SIM card (my phone can hold 2 SIM cards, why not a SIM card and an SD card?), or have the slot under the back lid (the thing that gave you access to the battery if you ever had the need to remove or replace). Anyway, anyone with access to the SD card slot would have access to the phone anyway. Unless you let complete strangers to have access to your phone. Besides, there are apps that do that already. App stores already have big Malware problem. Second point is equally absurd, if the phone has a slow SD card it can warn the user that the card is slowing down the phone. My phone warns me that fast charging isn't possible when I connect it to a slow charger. That would be no different. While it adds "mechanical parts that can break" (lol): 1. That would happen to people who swapped SD card frequently (the average phone wouldn't have more than a handful of swapping at most) 2. It could still work perfectly without the SD card, just like phones without it already do. 3. That problem is still present with SIM cards, and everybody is fine with them, and they aren't known for breaking frequently. 4. Repairing is a thing. The absence of SD card slots is so companies can get away with charging people for more storage. So yes, for the logical side of things, I can safely say your argument is total BS.
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@TopTierSports215 Fact: a phone with missing features is not synonym of the user networth. Another fact: My phone doesn't have it either. And another fact: When I bought my 300€ phone its benchmark results were better than many 500€ phones. Neither my sister or her boyfriend wanted to compare the benchmarks of their 800€ iPhones with mine. I wonder why. Apple influence is making phones worse, removing the headphone jack, replaceable battery, or micro SD card slot does not make phones better in anyway shape or form. At least if companies are going to be removing features they better make them cheaper. My phone could outperform far more expensive phones from the same time period. Spending more money on a phone than what it's worth is idioticly absurd. Not being poor doesn't mean it saves you from being an idiot.
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@TopTierSports215 Buying cheap isn't being poor, is being smart. I'd still rather buy a 50€ wired headset than a wireless one.
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@TopTierSports215 What a great pricing. It surely beats buying wired earphones for $4
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@TopTierSports215 Wired high end phones are far superior than high end wireless phones. And the wired equivalent to wireless is cheaper. Apple products are garbage. Their products aren't worth half their overinflated prices.
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@TopTierSports215 Apple is good at marketing, not at making quality products. Many companies are copying apple for the wrong reasons. Removing the headphone jack SD card slot or removable battery is not something that apple did right, is what apple did and got away with because their marketing is good. Well, good enough to influence sheep to buy their crappy products. But since most companies are copying apple, it's not that I have that many alternatives.
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@user-yf4mw I get wired ones for a tenth of the price. Is the lack of wires worth paying ten times more? ABSOLUTELY NOT!
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@user-yf4mw You said you got an unbranded pair for $40. What? Are they not wireless? Because you seem to point out they are. And yes, I bought several wired earphones for less than $5. I always dealt with wires, I also dealt with batteries. When batteries die you get a paper weight, a $40 paper weight. I have to buy 10 earphones to make up for one wireless, 10 $4 wired earphones last WAY MORE than a single wireless earbuds set. Wires are only inconvenient for the inept. I pass the wires under my clothes they are even less inconvenient than wireless phones. Things are only as inconvenient as your lack of skill to deal with them. Meanwhile my wired earphones last longer than the batteries on any wireless earbuds. No, paying 10 times more for a gimmick isn't worth it.
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@TopTierSports215 I don't care either. A lot of people prefer the inferior option. That's why so many people use apple products. I'm not here to convince people to use what they don't want to use.
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@softpiglet You get the best of both. Too bad they're so expensive.
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@Biru_to yeah, and when they break you spend $4 in new ones. They don't last less than the crappy batteries in wireless earbuds.
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@syedmurtaza8106 You realise there are adapters for older USB that makes them USB C. I got adapters that turned old mini usb cables in micro USB. Those adapters were little more than a couple €.
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