Hugo Barra wants microSD cards to disappear

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Hugo Barra on why Xiaomi is against microSD cards in phones

"For high performance devices, we are fundamentally against an SD card slot."

"are incredibly prone to failure and malfunctioning of various different sorts,"

"It is a trend: SD cards will disappear," Barra added. "You should basically not expect SD card slots in any of our flagships."

 

[Sushubh]

you just alienate a very significant size of the mobile market by not supporting expandable memory. the same segment used to avoid nexus and bought samsung devices. the same market now avoid samsung (s6) and would probably switch to LG g series.