He didn't say who the good reason benefitted. Increasing profit margin on phone storage upgrades is a good reason for the manufacturers.
And poor baby had a card fail. Guess the tech blogger couldn't be bothered to back up his card. Just because something is backed up to the cloud or somewhere else, doesn't mean that's how we want to restore things when we have to. It's called "backup" for a reason.
Gotta remember blogger does not equal journalist. They have no clue how to be journalists. Sensationalism, hot takes, and clear bias drive their articles solely to invoke clicks and spark "spirited" comments. Logic and facts are a distant memory now.
Better yet, tech-
blogger doesn't equate to
techie. At all.
It serious reads like one of those distant, outsider perspectives who hardly grasp the basics, yet runs with their ill perspective on a topic they have no authority to speak on honestly.
By the time these manufacturers started taking the microSD slot away, speed was definitely NOT the issue, "reliability" was only an issue for basic folk who refuse to go for the real cards and cheap out on non-brands (all these other devices that use MicroSD just fine [recorders, cameras, game consoles!], yet a few people cry about their off-brand card corrupting in their cheap afterthought phone, or stinker off the production-line [that's been a thing forever for everything] and MicroSD automatically = baaaad
)
At "best," its them adopting Google's BS of 'security' at the time. At worse, they all saw the cloud storage was picking up steam, and all the normal folk would go for that "convenience" over all. Lets use their own poor consumer practices and such as a reason to make ourselves more money than ever.
An by Odin's beard, good thing Sony and other phone makers clearly don't exist...
They serious just let anyone write articles these days.