Why are SD car reader disappearing ?

Hello,

[ kind of a rant with a real question beneath]

Looking for a new laptop, I'm quite surprised of many manufacturers new trends about SD card reader :

• Trend 1 : shrink size - place µSD readers instead of full SD (anybody using µSD between devices ? Any camera using µSD ??). Most manufacturers. Even if there's room for a SD reader.
  
• Trend 2 : remove SD reader, even µSD (HP on new business laptops).

What's wrong with SD card reader ? Nobody is using them anymore ? Is it only a photographer thing ? (shame on you damn dinosaurs, use wifi ?)

So sad Dell placed a µSD reader on his 7490. Fortunately Lenovo or Fujitsu have top business laptops with SD readers. HP, why ?

Thank you for reading If you have any comments or explanations, feel free

 

This is one of the reasons I built a desktop. I wanted a card reader but I also wanted CF card capability and the interface to be USB 3.0 not 2.0. By default most built in readers are USB 2.0 but I found Rosewill makes an internal USB 3.0 reader.

 

Probably the size of the device internally in an age of thin n light, the reducing demand for it, and that multiformat USB card readers are a cheap* available workaround that often support more kinds of flash cards including the larger CF

*Apple: "there's a $80 dongle for that"

 

I take it more cynically. In an age of increasingly soldered-in HW, any expansion port is a threat to the manufacturers' profits. Try to reduce them early and fast. We already see this with USB type-A, and the usual useful people will always scream about how one needs to get on with the times, and progress is coming old man!

In practice, I haven't bought a fullsize SD card in quite some time. Cell phones usually take microSD (if any at all), so I use SD-uSD adaptors with my cameras/computers, and uSD on my phone (also Nintendo Switch). Microcontrollers seem to go either way, but uSD is increasingly common, too (in that, it's a genuine and beneficial effort to save space - the entire project can be smaller than a business card. uSD actually saves space in that circumstance, especially if I'm laying it out by hand).

 

@Bifidusse SD is nowhere near versatile and omnipresent as mainstream microSD; it's on its way out anyway, yet still complicates things when implemented on modern devices - user of mainstream equipment should not by any means suffer requirement of an adapter because some outdated equipment of limited functionality gets preference from device manufacturer. Full-size SD should have been dumped in favor of microSD long ago, in my opinion - on all range of devices.