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Never any chance of it having it. No mention of SD card in any leak. Nothing got to do with Apple, nothing to do with anybody but the big G. If you want SD go to Samsung that is well known. You have the choice with Android.

No nexus device since the Nexus One have had micro SD, no surprise here.

It's probably to encourage users to use Google Drive and other cloud services

They don't want to deal with FAT.

You could use ext3/4 FS on sdcard. The reason gooogle doesn't want SD slot is probably because they want users to use their cloud instead.

Dan Morril's explanation on this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/mg14z/whoa_whoa_ics...

Or ExFAT

It is probably related to technical limitations. Some app features currently do not work if the app is installed on a sd card.

Link: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/install-locat...

Google has come out and said that they don't believe in having sd card support in their Nexus devices, which is kind of a bummer.