<story><title>Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/26/iphones-without-sim-card-slot-2022-rumor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t like it.  Having a physical object the embodies your phone&amp;#x27;s identity is a lot easier to deal with in &lt;i&gt;many&lt;/i&gt; ways than an ethereal emulation of said object.  For instance, if I&amp;#x27;m traveling I can just buy a SIM card at a kiosk and pop it in, even if I can only communicate through little more than pointing and grunting.  Another example: I got a new phone recently, but since all my stuff was still on my old phone, after the new phone was activated I told the clerk to put the new SIM back into the old phone.  It was painless and literally took a minute.  I&amp;#x27;m sure dicking around with eSIMs would have taken far longer, and I&amp;#x27;d have spend even more time dicking around to transfer things back.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Apple&amp;#x27;s former design chief Jony Ive once envisioned the iPhone as becoming a &amp;quot;single slab of glass,&amp;quot; and the SIM card slot&amp;#x27;s removal would be another step towards a seamless design...&lt;p&gt;I really do hate purist visions like that.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Taking out the slot would also free up some valuable internal space in the iPhone — every bit counts.&lt;p&gt;And my money is that they&amp;#x27;ll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; For instance, if I&amp;#x27;m traveling I can just buy a SIM card at a kiosk and pop it in&lt;p&gt;That is exactly what apple doesn&amp;#x27;t want you to do.  They don&amp;#x27;t want users making deals with local ISPs for service.  They want in on that transaction.  Virtual SIMs, controlled by phone manufacturers, will allow them to exercise a degree of control over wandering users.  If you are a local ISP, you better be part of the program if you want to sell your services to apple&amp;#x27;s devices.  And most users will be OK with this.  They will probably appreciated not having to buy a local SIM cars.  They will enjoy how easily their virtual SIM connected to the local ISP and hooked them into a the prearranged roaming deal for apple devices.  They won&amp;#x27;t question the price because they will have no input into a negotiation that happened years before they arrived in the country.  All that is left for them is to blindly pay the bills.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card slot in 2022</title><url>https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/26/iphones-without-sim-card-slot-2022-rumor/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tablespoon</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t like it.  Having a physical object the embodies your phone&amp;#x27;s identity is a lot easier to deal with in &lt;i&gt;many&lt;/i&gt; ways than an ethereal emulation of said object.  For instance, if I&amp;#x27;m traveling I can just buy a SIM card at a kiosk and pop it in, even if I can only communicate through little more than pointing and grunting.  Another example: I got a new phone recently, but since all my stuff was still on my old phone, after the new phone was activated I told the clerk to put the new SIM back into the old phone.  It was painless and literally took a minute.  I&amp;#x27;m sure dicking around with eSIMs would have taken far longer, and I&amp;#x27;d have spend even more time dicking around to transfer things back.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Apple&amp;#x27;s former design chief Jony Ive once envisioned the iPhone as becoming a &amp;quot;single slab of glass,&amp;quot; and the SIM card slot&amp;#x27;s removal would be another step towards a seamless design...&lt;p&gt;I really do hate purist visions like that.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Taking out the slot would also free up some valuable internal space in the iPhone — every bit counts.&lt;p&gt;And my money is that they&amp;#x27;ll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>apozem</author><text>&amp;gt; they&amp;#x27;ll use whatever volume they free up to mindlessly make the phone thinner.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s funny this commenter accuses Apple of mindlessness when they did not look up that the iPhone 13 and 13 Pro are thicker than their respective counterparts from last year.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;iphone&amp;#x2F;compare&amp;#x2F;?modelList=iphone13,iphone12,iphone11&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.apple.com&amp;#x2F;iphone&amp;#x2F;compare&amp;#x2F;?modelList=iphone13,iph...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>