Greed.
Even google with all the money and more interest in acquiring users joined the greed bandwagon by removing Sd card slots and doing things in software to ensure device obsolency ever couple years.
Even google with all the money and more interest in acquiring users joined the greed bandwagon by removing Sd card slots and doing things in software to ensure device obsolency ever couple years.
if a side effect of their greed for your data or not, you cant deny you will need an upgrade every year or so to keep up with app sizes.
heck i cant install firefox on the first three nexus had i not hacked the kernel to allow apps on sd.
See: http://www.androidcentral.com/why-nexus-devices-have-no-sd-c...
Though, I suppose they could develop some sort of solution that manages the split for the user so you can expand the memory and never worry about what it saved where...
All that said, I definitely prefer large internal memory over having an expandable memory slot... If I'm forced to make the choice.