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(No, just keep on. These kinds of regulations were long overdue)

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 148 points 1 year ago

User expandable/replaceable storage, please.

There's no reason whatsoever that a 2TB iPad should cost £1250 more than a 128GB one. I put an extra 2TB in my PS5 the other week for under £100.

[-] BotchedRPR@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

Honestly one of my favorite things about my ps5. I can appreciate the small repair moves, but I’d still appreciate „Other OS” being brought back.

[-] Rossel@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OtherOS is never coming back, it gives too much freedom to probe at the hardware and find security exploits.

[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 13 points 1 year ago

Sony also didn't like it that companies bought PS3s in bulk and used them as cheap compute power. They sell the consoles at a loss but make that up on game sales and licensing. Someone buying them and not gaming is cutting into their profit.

[-] BotchedRPR@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. Sony didn’t like otherOS because geohot used it in his first exploit. That is all Not a coincidence that they removed it shortly after geos findings ;)

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That's the reason back in 2013 or so I switched to PS3 for my main gaming. MS wanted a shitload for a tiny ass 360 hard drive, but with Sony it came with a 250GB drive out the gate and I replaced it with a 1TB for less than the 250 from Microsoft

Of course, I switched to PC because Sony got greedy again with no mp3s on the system, trying to make me re-buy games I already had, and charging for online

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They officially supported that aswell, then they quietly stopped the way Kia left the furry community

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Whatcha mean about Kia and the furry community? A quick search has failed me.

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Their mascot used to be hamsters.

What was with 90s and early 2000s marketing having a thing for hamsters? I remember Quiznos had a hamster commercial too, and I think Scion (Toyota?) did too. Why hamsters?

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This was the mid 2010s

[-] captainkaladin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I have a 512gb micro SD card in my phone.. you just need to avoid the premium phones then you have options

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still bitter that Samsung delayed the release of their PCIe 4.0 SSDs because Sony was buying up all their NAND stock, only for them to be sold to scalpers.

[-] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Fairphone still puts SD-Card slots in their phones, i doubled my storage for 40€

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

With phones and tablets I can understand, honestly. Soldered-in insanely fast storage space is quite expensive. Only recently a 2TB NVMe drive (much slower than what’s in an iPad) came down to reasonable prices. 1k+ is still a hella overcharge, but for the type memory it is, I can understand it being more than a standard NVMe.

Expanded storage slots would be great, too… but slow as shit I’d it’s SD. Are iPads waterproof? If not, then that’s not an issue, but if they are, I could see that being a problem as well.

[-] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Expandable storage does not compromise waterresistance. If a phone with a Sim card slot can be IP68 rated, then a phone with a combo sim/SD card slot can as well.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, noted! Then that’s not an issue. My only issue then would be the speed of the storage. Not a big issue on my iPad as I don’t use it for much, but running stuff and even going through pictures on my phone would be a nightmare (…which is my fault for having 15k pictures on it and not clearing it out i. Years…)

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

If you have problems with going through pictures, it's not the storage speed problem, that's for sure. Even the slowest sd card is fast enough to load a picture in human speeds

[-] debeluhar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Also, why can professional cameras have expendable storage? Recording videos and burst mode for example needs fast storage.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago

I can't find any evidence that the inbuilt iPad Pro SSD is faster than modern NVMe SSDs. It's somewhere between 1 and 3 GB/s depending on the model. The Crucial P5 I got ran quite happily in the PS5 at about 5GB/s.

It's all very much a muchness for the kind of loads that iPads will typically be handling anyway. I doubt there's anything that can process data fast enough to make the SSD the bottleneck.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not knowledgeable enough to explain, but it something about the bus between the CPU and the SSD that makes it so ridiculous.

Super good point on the “iPad isn’t gonna be doing much/anything that NEEDS that speed” though. Most people aren’t editing 4k video or whatever on it.

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