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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by ubercow13 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @03:36PM (#29717795)
There are various threads on their developer forums alluding to it, eg. https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/109874 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/110829 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/109797
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Re:Apple said to be preparing for iPhones without SIM card s... by avianlyric on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:43PM (#29720742)
Of the threads you’ve listed, one deals with app entitlements to call the addPlan API, which is nice to have so a carrier app can directly provision an eSIM, but not needed for eSIM provisioning via QR code. For the other two threads, it’s the same person both times making the assertion Apple’s eSIM is proprietary, with all comments being 3 years olds and discussing a beta iOS version.

So would take all of those sources with a large pinch of salt. If Apples eSIMs we’re proprietary, I would expect to be easy to find articles discussing the fact, given they’ve been around for a few years now.

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