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Some of the things that keep me on Android include:

* Iceraven (Firefox) - I use a number of extensions that make the internet much more pleasant, including ublock origin, ublacklist, dark reader, violent monkey, keepa, augmented steam, and more

* ReVanced - makes YouTube much more enjoyable: automatically skip ads, intros, like and subscribe reminders, and other "fluff", set custom playback speeds and remember them, return the dislike count and background playback, and so much more.

* Smart AudioBook Player - I look for books on CD and rip them because SABP is so much better than any other app I've tried.

* Headphones jack and especially microSD support (moto g100). I could probably live with Bluetooth headphones, but expandable/removable storage is incredibly useful and Apple seems to be dead set against it.

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Honest question as an iPhone user. What do you have currently on your expandable storage?

Asking to know what I’m missing as my music lives on Spotify, movies online, photos on iCloud, and documents wherever they are shared with users or on iCloud Drive. So, what could I use the local storage for? And how fast is it expandable storage compared to onboard flash?

Photos and videos for me. I don't use cloud storage - when I started to use computers, not that lont ago, software which uploaded all of my photos to a remote server would have been considered malware/spyware.

Not on your hardware, not your data. I understand most people may not care about it but tech companies have shown over and over again that they do not mind cutting access to the data they host, even to paying customers.

My phone doesn't have an SD slot but following the sentiment of keeping the important things local: I was back home for a month in a country with poor connectivity, so I "downloaded" some podcast on Spotify. After 14 days the app stopped working and asked me to log in through their website to change my location. Luckily I have 30gb of music on every phone that I have ever had so I didn't miss it, but still was very pissed off by it

Audiobooks and game ROMs (GC, Wii, PS1, PS2) are the two big ones at the moment. Also any photos or videos I capture on my phone, although it was also get backed up to cloud storage.

In the past I've carried a music library and some movies or TV series, but I mostly stream those these days. (I used to fly more often, so a local copy was more important then.)

Also, I like to try out different Android flavors on my phone occasionally, and it's nice to be able to pop out the microSD and know that no matter what I happens during the installation, that data is still safe.

I'm sure it's not as fast as the internal storage, but for the way I use it, it's fast enough that I don't really notice the speed.

I use the expandable storage on my tablet pretty much only when I travel. Then it's loaded with movies and TV shows.

>Smart AudioBook Player

Best AudioBook app ever.

>Headphone jack

Agree

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