After being on the verge of extinction, microSD card slots are now once again making a return in flagship Android smartphone this year. To make things better, Google has also added an option in Marshmallow that makes it possible to use a microSD card as an internal storage disk.

This will make sure that users don’t have to worry about manually moving their installed apps and other data to memory card, since the memory card will be fused with the internal storage of the device on a software level. However, both Samsung and LG have decided not to implement the “adoptable storage” feature of Marshmallow on their flagship devices: the Galaxy S7 and LG G5.

Samsung believes that its users use the microSD card for transferring data between their smartphone and PC, which the “adoptable storage” of Marshmallow is not suitable for. Plus, this feature also requires that the card be formatted the first time around, which might be a deal breaker for many. Further, once a card has been setup as an internal storage on a device, it cannot be read by any other devices — again a deal breaker.

Samsung says that Google introduced this feature in Marshmallow for low-end smartphones that usually come with only 4-8GB of storage space, and believes that its implementation of using microSD cards as a mass storage device is how most consumers of flagship devices want it to be.

Samsung’s explanation would have been more justifiable if it had also unveiled a 64GB storage variant of the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge because for some people, 32GB of storage space might be insufficient for installing all their apps and games.

Do you agree with Samsung here? Or do you believe that the company is just playing it safe?