Sorry, this is rubbish:
In what way will allowing apps on a SD card make things better for devs? It makes their apps more prone to being copied, why would they want that?
If you actually read the thread you would realiise that the OP started out by saying 'Android' does it. Hence my point. Everyone person keeps pointing to Android as a reason to improve things for WP. It's tiring. I keep hearing 'If WP doesn't adopt this 'thing that Android does' the market won't grow'. So, yeah I'm a little over hearing about what Android has. I don't care what Android has in the way of functions. I want WP to improve in it's own right.
As for the lack of space, again I ask the question, how many apps do you need? How many do you use? How many do you actually buy? Are you actually telling me you filled your phone with apps already and have no space at all? Have you thought that maybe you don't need all those apps?
Again, let me stress. I want WP to improve, I want it get better but I don't want it being an open system like Android prone to hacks. If you want that kind of system there's Android for that.
you're stupid. Apps need like 7x their own size to even install, and on my Lumia 820 I have 8GB internal and 64GB SD. I can't fit any games on my phone at all, and I hardly have many apps. When I hard reset, my standard list of small games and apps brings me to 800mb of free space. If I want to play Halo, I need to not only hard reset, but also not restore my backup. Ridiculous. Meanwhile my SDcard sits there unused but for music and thank god for Nokia, downloaded maps.
Now think of apps like metrotube where you can download videos, apps that let you download files (like the torrent app), any given video recording app, any app that generates a large cache, or any app that tries to support file formats wp already does (when reading the SD card wp refuses to let apps see certain file extensions, so it's either internal storage or use a PC to rename every file extension for the sake of your phone... What BS).
Now consider how ****ily WP handles files. I download a video using the torrent app. Let's say the video is a modest 400mb. This is sitting on my internal storage because wp apps can't write to SD. If I try to open the video, what happens? It gets *copied* from torrent isolated store to video player app isolated store. Boom, 2x the space is consumed, and this rape of my internal storage takes a good minute.
Apps NEED to be able to, if not be installed to the SD card, at LEAST have a shared storage area, and that area should be able to be the SD card. That doesn't resolve the huge space requirements for installing any given app though (300mb app? 1GB isn't enough free space to install it), nor apps with large caches. Ideally apps should be able to be placed on the SD, or at least given free write access for caches.