Honestly I wouldn’t mind much them removing the SD-card slot, if the price difference is not exaggerated between different storages sizes… Unlike what Apple does.
Why that ?
- You need a full guide to use them properly… And if you don’t you could lose all your data and have to hard reset your phone and format your SD card.
- I’ve had an SD card that failed me. The data on it was lost for good.
- SD cards were mostly used to expand the phone’s memory when they didn’t have enough to store all apps and data. Which is not really the case anymore, with 128GB of minimal storage. And clouds.
- SD cards are an extra expense and mean more pollution and child labour or bad working conditions.
- SD cards can break (they’re very thin) or be lost (they’re very small).
- it allows the phone to have more room for other components…
As for the headphone jack:
- I’ve had so many broken cables making it impossible for me to keep my headphones or earbuds more than a few months each. Which is definitely polluting and costly. If Fairphone stopped selling their wired earbuds, it might because changing their cable regularly might not have been so ecological in the end.
- At the opposite, I have wireless earbuds for more than 3 years now. They still work really well. And I use them very frequently.