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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Do people not remember how fucking annoying this shit was before physical SIM cards? Who in the ever loving fuck is asking for this??

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember vzw being on 3g and not having Sims. It made changing phones a bit of a hassle. I hated having to either go into a store or call in. Hopefully there's better ways in the future if this does happen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Especially the original Droids

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No one is asking for it. That won't stop Google from continuing the enshitification of everything they can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was annoying before because there was no sim. You had to register your device with the carrier for it to work. So it always meant a call to your provider to do anything and you couldn't use the device on more then one network.

E-sim is different. You can have multiple esims on one phone and even move them to other phones.