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Please stop following in Apple's footsteps (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dog_ to c/googlepixel

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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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[–] finnie 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This started when we lost swappable batteries and it never stopped. Will never get over it either.

[–] couragethebravedog 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

eSim is a good thing.

[–] Poe 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure, but current pixels support esim and regular sims. As someone who hops around phones often sim cards are unbeatable

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

Idk what you're experience with esim and switching phones is but Google Fi does it pretty much instantly for me. I've switched back and forth between my s21 and pixel 7 multiple times and never had an issue.

[–] dog_ 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I disagree, but that's my opinion.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why? It's like wanting a floppy drive when buying a new PC nowadays.

I'm exaggerating a bit, but physical SIMs will be redundant soon enough, no idea why you need a slot so bad?

[–] dragonflyteaparty 2 points 1 year ago

You're exaggerating a lot. Floppy disks were barely in use 25 years ago.

[–] dog_ 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like a broken record at this point. So allow me to quote... myself

Not every phone I have supports esim. If my phone breaks for some reason, or something software wise happens to it and I don't have the time to deal with it at the moment. I can pop out my sim card and put it into another phone to get it working so I have something at the moment rather than nothing. The example I've provided has actually happened to me before and I'd be screwed if I had an eSIM instead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So what should it be then? Full size, mini, micro, nano?

This is not a new problem, if we keep relying on outdated technology, we'll get nowhere.

[–] dog_ 1 points 1 year ago

It's not outdated if it still works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soon phones are required to have replaceable batteries! At least in the EU

[–] finnie 2 points 1 year ago

I had heard about that! Kinda nuts that America seems to just be universally doing the wrong thing about everything. We can't have nice things here, ever bc the worst people just want things to be worse.

[–] Prethoryn -3 points 1 year ago

Nah, the average consumer is kind of over it.