Google Shock U-Turn Makes Samsung Look Stupid

Well this is going to make Samsung look stupid…

Less than two months after the launch of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, Google has pulled the rug from under Samsung with a major new advance in Android M: expandable storage has a huge future.

Having shunned expandable storage in Nexus devices in the past, Google has performed something of a U-Turn with Android M giving microSD expansion a central role. With M microSD cards will be treated just like native storage making it a boon for photographers and media aficionados.

It also reinvigorates a major for differentiator for Android against iOS and, of course, makes Samsung (which has already come in for criticism for dropping microSD) look very silly.

Let’s break it down…

Google’s U-Turn

The developer preview of the forthcoming Android M release reveals a feature whereby removable memory cards can be ‘adopted’ by the operating system and treated as though they were internal storage. This functionality is baked into Android, no so special apps will be required to support the feature.


It’s an unexpected u-turn at a time when many, including Google, seemed set on a path to abandoning the microSD card altogether.

Source From:- http://www.forbes.com/

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