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they mention not having network access, so they want to consume stuff without network.

There's a reason many streaming services offered downloads later and not as the first feature. It's because people want to download things. Not everyone has constant WiFi around them.

You can consume downloaded things.

You defined niche as something that doesn't affect you. That was my point. Because you ended up falling in line with where commercial services push you does not mean everyone else should accept it too.

the problem is the cost increase is ridiculous and the whole purpose is to push cloud services. Google literally announced that. That's not just a theory. They said people won't need storage because of Google Drive.

That price point for 128GB of flash storage is absolutely ridiculous. If you disagree, I applaud you on being disconnected from reality. And dropping SD card slots as a push to the cloud is also something someone is allowed to complain about. They're nowhere near as common anymore when you look at other performance considerations. Generally, the higher performing the phone, the less likely an SD card slot is available. Even worse if you look at software EOLs and want a phone that will last more than two years.

The gripes are legitimate in my opinion. Storage shouldn't cost an arm and a leg when its available to consumers at much lower costs. SD cards shouldn't be dropped simply to sell other services. I find no problem with having either of those two complaints?

Why defend bad business practices simply because it doesn't affect you?

Believing that GUI is a common language is funny.

CLI is literally a common language as long as devs follow the actual rules. GUI? No. There are no rules for where configuration is. File-Settings? Maybe. Or maybe it's under Edit. Or maybe it's behind a gear symbol. You point out you like the variety of desktop environments but ignore that it's not easy to get something to look great in everything. It's like back in the day trying to get a website to look nice. It was either basic HTML that looked good in IE and Netscape (I know there were others, but let's be real) or you had something fancy that only worked in IE. So yeah, folks spend their valuable time on providing functionality instead of looking pretty. Sorry not sorry? Until more money goes towards those projects, you're going to be missing unnecessary bells and whistles. There's a reason Mac looks pretty. Money.

I will take new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes over adding a GUI every day of the week.

I have no issue with slowly moving toward socialist but I don't think there is much to be gained in protecting capitalism.

That was my reply to you about not needing to be a socialist society to have socialist policies. I clearly understand the principle of gradual change without childish analogies that waste everyone's time. You mention nothing in your comment about gradual change. Simply that we don't need a socialist society. Don't become condescending when people can't read your mind due to your inability to communicate. See how few words I used to discuss gradual change? No need for childish condescension for such a simple idea.

get a phone with more storage then

That's... did you read the actual post? It seems you did, but I'm curious how this sentence of yours the preceded to actually be typed by you.

I don't think anyone is arguing there aren't workarounds. But there shouldn't need to be. Why have to go through extra work when there's rarely any reason a phone shouldn't include an SD card slot. Adding my own, but I think replaceable battery is a good one too. I'm not a fan of disposable electronics.

I mean, there's plenty of other requirements for a phone. Expandable storage doesn't exist in a lot of popular devices that have plenty of updates past two years, or worse, the US (not sure where poster is). SD cards aren't common especially in power-user type phones.

Some people look at pictures they've taken. If they look at different things each time, who's going to be like "hey, I'm in a 2014 kind of mood, let's download those pictures as I might want to look at them later."

Not everyone just takes pictures and forgets about them. And many don't want to even trust cloud services with your data. Google already said all your photos will be used in training their AI. Some people may not like that.

Depends how strong the movement really is. It can produce a martyr or it can produce a chilling effect. Some assassinations aren't even of overly successful movements.

"it's not a problem for me so obviously everyone else is just weird. Anyone who does anything differently is doing something wrong."

Ok.

The problem is, there aren't many "not wrong" devices that address the issue. And simply wanting storage because of poor network a lot of the time is a fine reason that doesn't make someone a power user.

In regards to Simpsons, I'd say that expecting that but not any other sign of passing time is a bit ridiculous. They're literally stuck in time. They do not age. Why expect anything else?

But why would this employee put in that more work than anybody else? Just to get the same amount of compensation as anybody else?

Who said that's the case?

I fail to see how anything you said was useful in that I already admitted that it would need to be gradual, so you spent a lot of time on an entirely unnecessary analogy and thensome. However, you offered none of that in your initial comment. You just said that capitalism could still work. If there was any misunderstanding, it was on you for not sharing something you expected people to magically already know.

s coffee. It just needs to be coffee

No. This is absolutely wrong. There's an entire grading system involved.

You haven't owned coffee places. You've been entirely wrong on how to source coffee plus your description of what even makes coffee. If you used to own them, you probably ran them into the ground. You're objectively wrong on coffee production.

That is what happened when starbucks started as well. Other people were larger.

No. It wasn't. Starbucks was a 'first' in many ways. It was prior to third wave. First will always have advantages.

Starbucks doesn’t own the farms. They buy the beans from the people growing them. The exact same thing you would do if you started a coffee chain or you would buy from a wholesaler…

It's so insanely more complicated than that. Not all farms are equal.

What did I ignore? You only had one or two sentences there. I replied to it and pointed out how it's faulty. You'll need to help me out because I think you're using some other form of the English language or dialogue model than the rest of those who speak the language use.