Storage upgrades cost too much, and we need microSD cards back
AI data centers are devouring memory chips, leading to a shortage across the industry, including consumer devices. We have seen products run out of stock (in the case of the Mac Mini) and even serious price hikes on top of already expensive OEM storage options. Having ample onboard storage is actually becoming a luxury feature that not everyone can easily afford.This is a problem that we had solved long ago but are pretending to ignore the solution that sits right in front of our eyes.
- ▪AI data centers are devouring memory chips, leading to a shortage across the industry, including consumer devices.
- ▪We have seen products run out of stock (in the case of the Mac Mini) and even serious price hikes on top of already expensive OEM storage options.
- ▪Having ample onboard storage is actually becoming a luxury feature that not everyone can easily afford.This is a problem that we had solved long ago but are pretending to ignore the solution that sits right in front of our eyes.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 4 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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| Original publisher | Android Authority |
| Canonical URL | https://www.androidauthority.com/storage-upgrades-cost-too-much-microsd-cards-3688866/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:00:16 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-25T12:02:11.036Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-25T12:02:11.036Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | ToLLauEl9YHz · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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