I disagree, Google drive is not the reason. It's Google's belief that not having external storage gives a better use experience and makes an Android device less complicated. It's the whole where do apps save data and people getting confused as to whether the data they are looking for is on the internal or external storage. I'm happy with no external storage on a Nexus but I wish they'd give more storage options like 64Gb et cetera.

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So you are saying that Google thinks its tablet customers are too stupid to use a tablet. That speaks volumes for Google's mentality. There really isn't any rocket science to placing videos and music on the SD card and everything else in main storage. People vacationing with kids might even want to bring extra SD cards filled with Videos. No, it's blindly obvious that Google wants to force customers to buy videos and music from Google Play and play them online, and they want to force customers to use Google Drive. That's that's the only reason that Google would insist that their Google branded products remain storage space challenged while almost every other Android tablet maker includes an SD card slot. Google sees it's competition as Amazon, not Samsung, and Google wants to sell or rent content and storage space on their servers. The fact is that the Nexus product line are low margin products produced to drive traffic to the play store and other Google services (and advertisers) because those are the real profit centers - just as they are for Amazon.