https://gizmodo.com/google-s-pixel-8-sim-slot-esim-only-iphone-1850759671
What happened to daring to be different? What happened to having options? What happened to creativity?
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Nonstarter for me then ๐ frustrating too, why ~~these companies insist on~~ use Google's infra instead of creating or adopting an actual celluar standard?
Edit: sentence
Only to initially install it. After you install the esim, you can purge the Google stuff and it'll remain working perfectly. Esim is actually on your phone at the hardware level.