rushmore
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Re: Will you buy the Note 5 if it doesn't have a SD card and/or removable battery?
Respectfully another point pushed by some on forums and Samsung marketing- taking the relatively minor point of "slowing down", to "does not work" and what controller is used for it. There is a small technical bottleneck for sd cards and flash storage with 2.0, but works and only a tiny itty bitty fraction of a second slower bottleneck (for slower cards) for content on the card to initiate access (catch is cores of apps are not on the card anyway). All moot, since there are other cache, wait state and Android related issues that negate and override any perceived slow down due to just that. Quick summary: It is an excuse not to add micro sd and test out an Apple wannabe storage model that failed miserably to the point of earlier than normal planned price drops on the S6 and Edge. Samsung sales were bad and will be even worse once the bogus sell-in to retail numbers are netted out of actual sell-though to consumer numbers.
Samsung wanted the usual attach rates of micro sd sales built in to the S6 and Edge. Why let consumers buy lower cost card options from other companies when they could try out the Apple model? It has not worked as they expected and played even further into Apple's hands.
Samsung might be full of BS, but they did make a great device with the Note 4
Wait, didn't I mention that the memory controller for UFS 2.0 doesn't work with SD cards?
Respectfully another point pushed by some on forums and Samsung marketing- taking the relatively minor point of "slowing down", to "does not work" and what controller is used for it. There is a small technical bottleneck for sd cards and flash storage with 2.0, but works and only a tiny itty bitty fraction of a second slower bottleneck (for slower cards) for content on the card to initiate access (catch is cores of apps are not on the card anyway). All moot, since there are other cache, wait state and Android related issues that negate and override any perceived slow down due to just that. Quick summary: It is an excuse not to add micro sd and test out an Apple wannabe storage model that failed miserably to the point of earlier than normal planned price drops on the S6 and Edge. Samsung sales were bad and will be even worse once the bogus sell-in to retail numbers are netted out of actual sell-though to consumer numbers.
Samsung wanted the usual attach rates of micro sd sales built in to the S6 and Edge. Why let consumers buy lower cost card options from other companies when they could try out the Apple model? It has not worked as they expected and played even further into Apple's hands.
Samsung might be full of BS, but they did make a great device with the Note 4
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