Ah right, I'd kind of assumed that there might be a way to build a device that had it's storage on SD, but without it necessarily knowing that the storage it was using was physically removable. Basically using the SD card in a manner analogous to a normal DIMM or SSD in a desktop PC.
Like I said before, as far as I'm concerned any 'droid phone - apart from maybe a budget model - that is fixed storage only is an instant "fail" in my book. Like others (I guess) I probably won't change the card, but the fact that it is removable is a plus point. There is no need to ape Apple ...