SIM cards are the new 3.5mm headphone jack, circa the iPhone 7’s launch: Everyone has them right now, but Apple has signaled that it'll be getting rid of them eventually. Soon, the best phones you can buy will likely follow suit, and we’ll all feel the pain.
The replacement to the removable SIM card – or eSIM (embedded SIM) – is a growing technology that has been available for a few years now. Their presence in many phones spans years, yet they haven't really being taken seriously until the iPhone 14 went eSIM-only in the US. As a result, the current state of the technology has proven rather inconvenient compared to regular old physical SIM cards. Some of these cracks only really show up when you go looking for them, but it's the edge cases that make me take a step back – and have me wondering why The Future™ looks so messy.
