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Al Sutton  
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 More options Oct 23 2009, 2:56 am
From: Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:56:22 +0100
Local: Fri, Oct 23 2009 2:56 am
Subject: Re: More Applications on SDCARD
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I've never been a fan of assuming how a user uses their device and not  
including functionality on that basis.

Personally I can see people temporarily swapping SD cards so they can  
try out other peoples apps on their phone, so I can see the need to  
handle it properly.

Al.
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On 23 Oct 2009, at 01:05, Eric F wrote:

>  you buy a Mac Mini you get to
> choose how big of a disk drive you want. I can't really imagine a
> situation where I'd want to have different apps on different SD cards
> and switch between them. Sure in a perfect world it should still work.
> But if it degrades from the system being able to work smoothly in
> other areas, I don't think this is a bad thing to give up. Especially
> if it's possible to A) take the file that represents the encrypted
> file system and copy it to the computer, and then copy it to a second
> card. So let's say we bought an 8GB card thinking that would be
> sufficient. Later we realize we wanted a 16 GB card, we move the file
> between cards using a computer and then use Android to resize the
> filesystem to our new choice, preserving our installed apps.

> I can't see normal users "swapping cards", so that leaves us with
> power users. I think most power users are hungry for the largest/
> fastest SD card they can get their hands on. Which means 16 (soon 32)
> GB cards, how many of those is a user going to need? Many phones are


 
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