Because having the option of using a micro SD can provide additional storage that is significantly less expensive than buying a phone with larger storage capacity.

Pics of yo momma.

I've about 2,000 and counting FLAC files on my micro SD card for high quality audio. Many from my CD collection, and a nice amount obtained through other means. I'm already at 90 gigs used in my 256 gig card.

I'll be getting a new phone at the end of the year, and to transfer all that music (plus my commissioned art collection) all I'd have to do it just pop the card into the new phone.

No wrestling with cloud storage subscriptions or having to worry about my digital stuff being in somebody else's hands. Just keep it on a tiny card smaller than my fingernail and back it up periodically to my desktop and my laptop. Best part is that I don't even need any adapters to use headphones, as Motorola phones still have headphone jacks.

There's people with downloaded movies and shows they like having local access to without any streaming woes, folks who take tons of photos and videos, etc. Having an SD card slot is one of the requirements I need for me to want to use a phone.

"If I dont have a problem that means NOBODY will EVER have that problem"

Are you dumb? If you don't want that many storage space doesn't mean others don't want it?

That's the ultimate irony of being young now - satisfied with awful tech experiences. Watching videos on a tiny screen and listening to music on earbuds or even worse, a cell phone speaker.

I recently saw an Amazon review where someone couldn't believe how much better full size headphones were than their apple airpods. A whole review blathering about why a speaker 25x larger sounded better. "Never imagined such a difference!!!" Funny af

And the tech companies absolutely know this.

From the average user's perspective, there is no real need.

Back in the day your 0.2 megapixel camera would take up a lot of space. That's not the case anymore, especially with cloud storage and being able to just plug your phone into a computer and take the files off it that way.