It can help water proofing but other than that I see no benefit to the end user for the removal of the physical card. It makes swapping phones a lot harder and leaves it at the mercy of the cellular provider. Apple always put profit ahead of user benefit.
In some countries, like in Iceland going without a physical sim is not an option, at least some of the carriers support it today, but it can't be your only card, as we use a program on the sim card for digital signing and online authentication.
Understood, which is why it's not everywhere yet. Even in the US, carriers make use of different SIMs for iPhone for network testing because iOS doesn't let you configure private cellular networks the same as Android.
Correct. I've foolishly held out based on the perpetual rumors of TouchID and USB-C coming soon, but I've reached the point where I can't keep waiting even if they do actually come year.
I think they're re-using the panels from the 13 on the 14 as well, right? That would mean, in addition to adding differentiation between the 14 and 14P models, using the same display as last year lets them use existing supply lines and manufacturing equipment. That's Tim Cooks bread and butter.
