Originally Posted by Gerard

I rather doubt that WP8 will even support this level of card swapping potential. To 'fix' this 'issue' from Microsoft's perspective, it seems they'd have to lock down any possibility of user intervention with device potential. Adding memory would go against their new iPhone-copycat approach to marketing. At least one reason for preventing too much memory being added to these devices is fairly obvious; the more data users must stream or download from the cloud, the more carriers can justify charging to consumers, the richer they get. And since everyone (well, most) share the sense that making more money is a good thing, who can complain if Verizon or AT&T get richer due to this strategy? Justifying it to consumers is simple. Just say 'there were too many problems with removable memory cards' and apparently most will either respond 'what memory cards?' or 'yeah, that's so true.' Less is more, just like Apple says. Just like Palm used to say.