Perhaps if you would read what I wrote - you wouldn't misquote me. Feel free to re-read what I wrote, and again, its mostly opinion. By all means feel free to disagree with me - I welcome any and all opinions, but again - I didn't say it was - as you put it "intentional sabotage". It is however a great marketing scheme for companies to stop including expandable memory on or in its products to get the end user (you or me or others) to purchase cloud storage.
To add a little more clarity for you- I said that if you want to expand the Microsoft USB port, you might have to pay $150-$170 for the Microsoft Expansion Port. I didn't say 150-170 for an off brand, I said Microsoft. Some folks like to keep things uniform, and for those that do, Microsoft charges a whole lotta cash for a simple expansion port. As for me, I am more than happy to pay for a Microsoft product, as long as it works. I am waiting on the reviews before I spend the large coin. Again - thanks for reading, and feel free to indulge me with your opinion, but also feel free to leave out the misquotes.
The problem seems to be your command of the English language. You get it correct in this quote where you say "... if you want to expand the Microsoft USB port, you
MIGHT have to pay $150-170 for the Microsoft Expansion Port" [emphasis mine]. In your previous post, you say "Microsoft has really thought out this one as they designed the Surface with 1 USB port - and if you want to extend this port you
HAVE TO pay the piper in the range of $150-$180 for the Microsoft Surface Dock" [emphasis mine]. By saying "have to", you are explicitly saying that it is necessary to do this to have more USB ports which is a false statement. This is what's causing the confusion, and people quoting you have done so correctly. Also, you use the word "memory" in place of "storage": this is a common misuse of the standard nomenclature since most people use the word "memory" to refer to RAM rather than storage space.
I also disagree that cheaper solutions are necessarily worse than more expensive ones. A $5 dollar HDMI cable is no worse than a $100 one which is purely marketed to be more expensive, playing off of people's fears that a cheaper product will be significantly worse. I would say the same thing here about USB hubs: if all you want to do is expand how many USB ports that you have, a $5 hub will probably perform just as well as the $150-170 "Microsoft Expansion Port"... which is a product that doesn't exist. If you mean the Surface Dock, then you're also wrong that it's just a simple expansion hub. It's also a display adaptor, ethernet, an audio connector, and extended power cable that connects through the power plug, a non-standard way to do this.
Basically, your snarkiness is unwarranted and you should stop it unless you post perfectly. Even then, it would still be unnecessary.