You are absolutely correct. It doesn't matter in the slightest. It's just the new version of Mac vs. Windows.
For some reason that nobody can rationally explain, people feel the need to make themselves feel better about their platform choice by evangelizing theirs, and diminishing the others. This ultimately results in "fanboys" and "haters"
It's tribalism run amok, where no tribe actually exists. Just buy a phone you like and use the fucker. Nobody should care why you chose what you did, except you.
If you reduce things to their simplest, then everything is a copy.
If what Apple did was so simple and obvious, why did nobody do it before them? Why did it take them several years of R&D to get it done, even in the incomplete way that the original iPhone presented? No third party apps, couldn't even copy and paste, no 3G data, etc.
Perhaps it only becomes simple and obvious once someone has done it and it's now clear how god damn terrible the devices that came before were? Remember, in 2007, Android was a Blackberry knock-off until the iPhone was displayed at Macworld SF in January. Then all of a sudden they ditched the hardware keyboard and moved in the direction that every phone is today.
If it's so obvious and easy, how is it that the Android team missed the mark too, with a big fat head start?
LOL did you just really ask if the AC spewing FUD read the article before posting lies?
It says it right there in the damn summary that there's still a nano-SIM tray. But this is an article about a new feature of a new Apple product, so the only things you're going to read are about how they either copied someone else, or kneejerk chicken-little horseshit that is at best partially correct, but usually completely wrong.
This is what Slashdot does now. To be fair, even 10 years ago nobody actually read the articles - they just based their kneejerk chicken-little horseshit on the summary.
Other than not having physical space used for two SIM card trays, contacts, mechanical retainer clips, waterproofing seals, etc., which can be used for other things?
Sounds like good reasoning to me, especially since there is still a SIM tray available.
If your iPhone is carrier unlocked, you just eject the SIM and put in a new one. It sees that it was ejected and gives you a message saying there is no SIM present, and then when it sees the new one it attempts to activate.
Just like literally any other GSM phone ever. And this functionality has been in every single iPhone going back to the original HSPA+ 4GB model.
You can make the same argument for every election ever. Does that mean that we should just declare all policies and office holders by weekly sampled tracking poll, or just for the stuff you don't like?
And better features. What a snooze fest. The post-facto adjustable depth of field is nice, except that I think other phones have already been able to do that.
That won't stop Apple from heralding their implementation as the dawning of a new age of photography though.
the restriction is that the carrier needs to support E-SIM instead of actual SIM cards. There's no SIM tray on the Apple Watch. They are using E-SIM on the new iPhones as well to enable dual-SIM capabilities, likely with one physical SIM tray and then the E-SIM functionality. That is, if they do it right so that your primary carrier can be E-SIM and then if you are traveling you can get a local data-only SIM or what-have-you.
Short version: that's a carrier issue, not really an Apple issue outside of them not including a SIM tray on the watch for savings of physical volume.
If the voting public can't be fucked to show up and vote, it is not valid to include all of them in your statistic.
This is as meaningless as when people whine about "winning the popular vote" in US Presidential elections, but losing the one metric that counts - the electoral college.
Stop moving the goalposts, and just get people to actually give a shit and vote.
The "dense population most of the way" in the central valley is cows. Thousands and thousands of cows. And cows aren't allowed on the train.
Here's a hint: drive through the central valley at night. The only light you'll see north of Bakersfield is from your own headlights, any tail lights in front of you, and the headlights of oncoming traffic on the other side of I-5.
Other than that, you may as well be driving on the surface of the moon for all the "dense population" in the central valley. Is all of this population still practicing war blackouts from 1942?
Short version: you're an idiot and have no idea what you're talking about.
Third possible result: Congress tells him what he can go do with himself on the trade war and kills it.
This, of course, won't happen because the halls of Congress are filled with feckless us-versus-them morons that are too busy with publicity stunts and blaming the other guys to actually do anything useful.
I think it existed, once. The problem is that the media has tilted to entertainment instead of factual programming. People don't want to be informed with thought-provoking factual reporting, that causes them to have to think. They want the thinking done for them, so you get panels of "experts" giving "analysis" which really amounts to Jerry Springer Lite as the talking heads argue.
The question is who is booking the talking heads, and how objective are they? Is the panel stacked in order to skew a particular direction? I think we all know the answer is now "yes" with only the direction being the question, and that's based on the media company.
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Read the god damn summary again then.
These handsets will have a new "dual SIM dual standby" option, one of which will be a nano SIM.
In case you missed it again:
one of which will be a nano SIM.
again:
a nano SIM.
Got it yet? Probably not.
You are absolutely correct. It doesn't matter in the slightest. It's just the new version of Mac vs. Windows.
For some reason that nobody can rationally explain, people feel the need to make themselves feel better about their platform choice by evangelizing theirs, and diminishing the others. This ultimately results in "fanboys" and "haters"
It's tribalism run amok, where no tribe actually exists. Just buy a phone you like and use the fucker. Nobody should care why you chose what you did, except you.
If you reduce things to their simplest, then everything is a copy.
If what Apple did was so simple and obvious, why did nobody do it before them? Why did it take them several years of R&D to get it done, even in the incomplete way that the original iPhone presented? No third party apps, couldn't even copy and paste, no 3G data, etc.
Perhaps it only becomes simple and obvious once someone has done it and it's now clear how god damn terrible the devices that came before were? Remember, in 2007, Android was a Blackberry knock-off until the iPhone was displayed at Macworld SF in January. Then all of a sudden they ditched the hardware keyboard and moved in the direction that every phone is today.
If it's so obvious and easy, how is it that the Android team missed the mark too, with a big fat head start?
They are probably both being manufactured at the same TSMC foundry using the same 7nm process.
Really, this is just a pissing contest that nobody actually cares about.
You know that a watch is smaller than a phone, right?
We're talking about the Apple Watch. Even these phones that sport the e-SIM still have a nano-sim slot on them.
Which they did.
But this is Apple so everyone has to get their bitch on, even if their chosen tribe has already done the exact same thing.
Except that the SIM still exists, and you can even plug one into these phones:
These handsets will have a new "dual SIM dual standby" option, one of which will be a nano SIM.
This whole "OMG I can't use it outside my country" thing is FUD. it still has a damn nano-SIM slot on it.
Good thing there's still a nano-SIM slot on the phone for when you are in ${random shop} in Vietnam or Thailand, right?
Read the god damn summary. It says it right there.
These handsets will have a new "dual SIM dual standby" option, one of which will be a nano SIM.
LOL did you just really ask if the AC spewing FUD read the article before posting lies?
It says it right there in the damn summary that there's still a nano-SIM tray. But this is an article about a new feature of a new Apple product, so the only things you're going to read are about how they either copied someone else, or kneejerk chicken-little horseshit that is at best partially correct, but usually completely wrong.
This is what Slashdot does now. To be fair, even 10 years ago nobody actually read the articles - they just based their kneejerk chicken-little horseshit on the summary.
Other than not having physical space used for two SIM card trays, contacts, mechanical retainer clips, waterproofing seals, etc., which can be used for other things?
Sounds like good reasoning to me, especially since there is still a SIM tray available.
If your iPhone is carrier unlocked, you just eject the SIM and put in a new one. It sees that it was ejected and gives you a message saying there is no SIM present, and then when it sees the new one it attempts to activate.
Just like literally any other GSM phone ever. And this functionality has been in every single iPhone going back to the original HSPA+ 4GB model.
Wrong.
These handsets will have a new "dual SIM dual standby" option, one of which will be a nano SIM.
Right there in the summary. If you want a physical SIM, use the slot. Work it out with your carrier.
Please read.
There is still a SIM tray.
What you are supposed to do, is pop that out and put in your nano-sim just like you always did.
It even says it right there in the god damn summary:
These handsets will have a new "dual SIM dual standby" option, one of which will be a nano SIM.
Can you spend 10 seconds to read before firing off some angry tirade that is completely wrong, please?
You can make the same argument for every election ever. Does that mean that we should just declare all policies and office holders by weekly sampled tracking poll, or just for the stuff you don't like?
Seriously, you sound like an idiot.
And better features. What a snooze fest. The post-facto adjustable depth of field is nice, except that I think other phones have already been able to do that.
That won't stop Apple from heralding their implementation as the dawning of a new age of photography though.
That's really unfortunate. I've always though BMW was ridiculous with things like the BMW X3 XDrive35i and so on.
I feel dumber just re-typing it, much less having to explain that to anyone if I owned one.
the restriction is that the carrier needs to support E-SIM instead of actual SIM cards. There's no SIM tray on the Apple Watch.
They are using E-SIM on the new iPhones as well to enable dual-SIM capabilities, likely with one physical SIM tray and then the E-SIM functionality. That is, if they do it right so that your primary carrier can be E-SIM and then if you are traveling you can get a local data-only SIM or what-have-you.
Short version: that's a carrier issue, not really an Apple issue outside of them not including a SIM tray on the watch for savings of physical volume.
If the voting public can't be fucked to show up and vote, it is not valid to include all of them in your statistic.
This is as meaningless as when people whine about "winning the popular vote" in US Presidential elections, but losing the one metric that counts - the electoral college.
Stop moving the goalposts, and just get people to actually give a shit and vote.
The 50,000 people that live there might think you are an idiot.
The politicians think they can regulate behavior with a pen again.
Good luck with that.
Unlikely. Why would a billionaire side with the people, instead of his billionaire friends? Water seeks it's own level.
Bwaaaaaahahahahhahaha
The "dense population most of the way" in the central valley is cows. Thousands and thousands of cows. And cows aren't allowed on the train.
Here's a hint: drive through the central valley at night. The only light you'll see north of Bakersfield is from your own headlights, any tail lights in front of you, and the headlights of oncoming traffic on the other side of I-5.
Other than that, you may as well be driving on the surface of the moon for all the "dense population" in the central valley. Is all of this population still practicing war blackouts from 1942?
Short version: you're an idiot and have no idea what you're talking about.
Don't forget that it will be the most expensive, slowest, "high-speed" rail in the world when it's done.
Thumbs up to that shit.
Third possible result: Congress tells him what he can go do with himself on the trade war and kills it.
This, of course, won't happen because the halls of Congress are filled with feckless us-versus-them morons that are too busy with publicity stunts and blaming the other guys to actually do anything useful.
I think it existed, once. The problem is that the media has tilted to entertainment instead of factual programming. People don't want to be informed with thought-provoking factual reporting, that causes them to have to think. They want the thinking done for them, so you get panels of "experts" giving "analysis" which really amounts to Jerry Springer Lite as the talking heads argue.
The question is who is booking the talking heads, and how objective are they? Is the panel stacked in order to skew a particular direction? I think we all know the answer is now "yes" with only the direction being the question, and that's based on the media company.