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avidruntime 6 hours ago

Apple has been doing eSIM for something like 4 years now.

retired 6 hours ago | parent [-]

On the international market iPhones have had SIM slots.

avidruntime 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah. about 30 seconds ago they mentioned in the (still ongoing) keynote they said it was removed to recoup space for internals. I recall the 3.5mm jack removal being motivated along similar lines. I wonder, assuming the space where the SIM slot would've gone was filled with increased battery size, what that delta would in duration. I'm from the US, cursory reading about global eSIM adoption surprised me (only 30% and most of that 30% is in the US vs. my assumption of >50%). What prevents adoption elsewhere? Consumer demand for swapping? Curious to hear your POV on it.

AlexandrB 5 hours ago | parent [-]

eSIMs give a lot of control back to the carrier. My carrier does not allow transferring eSIMs between phones, but I can trivially move their physical SIM card.