exactly. the phone currently has INTERNAL memory, and that's the problem. Adding more INTERNAL memory won't fix it in the long run, it just delays the problem. The real gold is securing the ability to safely install apps to the SD Card and also use it as cache for apps that can't be moved. You can safely, in your home, remove an SD Card without voiding your warranty, replacing internal memory is another story involving shipping and waiting. No thanks.
i think the real question here is adoptability. i have the Dream and i have resorted to uninstalling apps and replacing them with xx byte sized widgets in order to free up space and allow smooth operation of my phone. iPhone users would laugh at the fact. they download apps with impunity and never have to worry about 'managing' apps. Apps are what drive the phones success, not the specs.
I agree that the long term gold solution is Apps2SD but until that actually becomes a REAL app, and not something that you need to void your warranty by rooting your phone to do, Android will not achieve what it set out to do, namely compete and kill apple. And given the actual cost now of memory and seeing that a very small amount of android phone do give a gig or more of internal memory, (i believe one samsung has 8 gigs internal) the question is why are hardware manufacturers shooting android in the head with this gaffe?
i have sworn off Android at the moment due to the whole fiasco with Rogers up here in Canada. Namely that my Dream will be forever stuck at 1.5 because HTC and Rogers blame each other for not cranking out an update for their customized crap, AND that the phone was designed so poorly that HTC says they couldn't get 2.1 on it even if they tried.
In this day and age, phones with less than 1gig of internal memory should be laughed at and theres no excuse, especially when the success of the breakthrough OS is being touted as the future.
reminds me of the good old days of DOS and the 640k mem limit and all the config.sys tweaks with memory managers to load and unload programs to get programs to run.
ill leave you with this. the more times i search for apps in the market, the bigger the market app becomes. all this resides on internal. if i dont go in and clear the cache from the app manager, soon my phone bogs down to the point where i can actually miss answering a call because the phone lags while its ringing. when a phone cant do its primary function because its internal memory ran out, someones ass should be swinging from the branches i say.