So my multi card (read SD and a few legacy ones I have to be cool) reader died. That is OK as I needed to upgrade to something that supported SDXC anyway.
Thought I would do the real life thing.
Went to a local computer shop. No we don't have anything like that and looked at me like I was strange.
Went to a supermarket. Plenty of rip off SD cards but no reader.
Went to argos. Plenty of surprisingly affordable SD cards and USB drives but reader was a £20 order in only affair for a piece of junk.
10 years ago I might have paid more in the real world but they would have been everywhere.
Why is this? Has the collective phone and tablet industry both taken out cameras, MP3 players and whatever else and then eaten all the lead paint to stop using expandable memory themselves thus meaning nobody wants one? Did PCs die and people only want them for the devices in question?
Thought I would do the real life thing.
Went to a local computer shop. No we don't have anything like that and looked at me like I was strange.
Went to a supermarket. Plenty of rip off SD cards but no reader.
Went to argos. Plenty of surprisingly affordable SD cards and USB drives but reader was a £20 order in only affair for a piece of junk.
10 years ago I might have paid more in the real world but they would have been everywhere.
Why is this? Has the collective phone and tablet industry both taken out cameras, MP3 players and whatever else and then eaten all the lead paint to stop using expandable memory themselves thus meaning nobody wants one? Did PCs die and people only want them for the devices in question?