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Re:Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones by rollcat on Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:37AM (#39153786)
Nothing a quick regulation can't solve. If EU could make Apple use USB-C and enable non-Webkit browsers, I'm sure same could be done to fix eSIM.
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Re:Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones by lakpan on Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:46AM (#39153825)
See you in 2035

Unfortunately we have to suffer for a long time before regulation follows, if ever.

Then regulation follows and we get cookie banners sometimes.

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Re:Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones by rusk on Saturday January 27, 2024 @04:02AM (#39153907)
Sometimes you get free roaming and flat rate data tariffs …
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Re:Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones by tjoff on Saturday January 27, 2024 @04:06AM (#39153925)
It is just adapting existing laws to esims. Won't be nearly that long.

In the meantime, don't buy esims. Nothing but drawbacks.

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Re:Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones by lucasban on Saturday January 27, 2024 @04:14AM (#39153963)
I find buying local eSIMs when traveling internationally to be much more convenient than physical SIMs
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Re:Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones by tjoff on Saturday January 27, 2024 @05:07AM (#39154237)
Maybe, never had a need. But even more reason to have a physical sim for your primary service.
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Re:Android now lets you transfer eSIMs between your phones by rollcat on Saturday January 27, 2024 @06:50AM (#39154788)
Sometimes we get cookie banners, sometimes we get EC 261, Schengen, or USB-C.

The root cause of the cookie banner problem was implementing third-party cookies in the first place. Regulation is like violence; in both that if it doesn't work you just need more, and that if you needed to resort to it you've already fucked up.

We can't wind the clock back and give Netscape a slap, or stop the operators from introducing SIM-lock on handsets. The next best thing is to fix it now, and yeah, sometimes the wheels have to turn slowly.

What else do you propose we do? Refuse to use mobile data? (Actually, doesn't seem like the worst idea.)

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