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Originally Posted by tlgerdes
The Move To SD Card function is still functional in 4.4, it is though and always had been controlled by the app developer as to whether they would let you move the app.
I looked through my app list and most won't move, but the eBay so still let's you.
But still, you can put an SD card in most android phones, you don't get that option on an idevice, you just have to buy a new one.
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In my two year old Medion Android 4.1.1 phone, it had Move to SD card in the Manage Apps section - but when one did so, it only moved the apps the the phone's internal storage, which it had designated as SD Card 0. And no third party App2SD apps would move them. Puzzled at the time, I Googled it and found that owners of the the new Samsung had the same issue, but that it was to be fixed in an update.
My Lenovo phone has Android 4.4.1 on it, and it just doesn't move anything to SD card, or pretend to do so. So I did a bit of Googling, and at one site one knowledgeable chap said not to bother, stating that the specs had changed in Android 4 such that the SD card could not be used for anything other than storage - and he gave a link to the relevant part of the Android specifications which made it so (I can't find that link, unfortunately).
So, it appears that if an Android 4 phone is actually moving apps to the SD card, it is something that the manufacturer has done, rather than something inherent in Android.
As you say, a big advantage of Android was that you could put an SD card into it, unlike the Idevices. But the new specs got rid of part of that functionality.
Regards,
Renato