If the time frame posted is true, it’s only at the most, 8 weeksfrom now. Can’t you just wait a lil?
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Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile Won't Support eSIM Until Later This Year
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No...they knew about this and had a timeframe, now nobody is held responsible...they new this since Spring when the DOJ started investigating them for making esim use difficult for consumers
How exactly does one sell an eSIM card? That's kind of removes the e in eSim, right?
I was hoping the same thing. I changed my mind to upgrade and if I wait until January, I might as well wait for next year’s new iPhones.
Not surprising at all. I reckon that all the telecom carriers were at least hesitant at the idea: 1 phone, multiple phone numbers/accounts.
The concept doesn't work in their favor.
What possible reason do carriers have to make eSIM "more readily available," except that Apple is publicly pressuring them to do so? There is zero benefit to them and significant drawbacks: no $25-$30 BS "SIM fee" and no barrier to switching carriers at will. If Apple had released physical dual-SIM in the US we would never see the carriers support eSIM.
Does anyone know if you can just buy a dual sim slot and pop it into a non Chinese model?
Seriously...what sort of cave dwelling carrier STILL doesn't have VoLTE in 2018?
This is disappointing although not surprising. Carriers stand to lose money with many people using the new phones. They also need time to create new fees and plans centered around the eSIM use etc. There are reasons the carriers are dragging their proverbial feet, and it's not because of Apple.
Unless you want that functionality with any of the big 3 US carriers...
Can all the fools who blamed Apple now just stop talking? Nothing goes live on a Telco's back plane without their approval months in advance.
Sure...but some of us bought the phone based on the premise that we would have dual SIM functionality sooner than later. I had an iPhone X...it worked fine...but I got the Xs MAX for the express purpose of being able to combine my work and cell phones. After I bought it, I found out the functionality wouldn't be available until 12.1 came out. Now that 12.1 is out, I'm hearing "by the end of the year"...I'm not getting ahead of myself when I say I spent $1400 for this to suck.
I don’t believe the “software” excuse... I think carriers are trying to ensure a legal/defensible way of adding more fees for this baked in service. smh
Lucky I jumped the gun this time as well. I’ve had esim activated with AT&T since Sunday and a happily using both AT&T and Verizon on the same phone. Haven’t had any issues with either service. Switching back and forth primary voice and data is a breeze.
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So the argument I’ve seen multiple times against the possibility that Apple released a new phone without adequate development and testing of the modem and antenna is that they would never release a phone that wasn’t ready and risk huge fallout. Yet this clearly shows that Apple had at the very least not worked out all of the details with the eSim with the primary carriers in their home country. That sounds to me that Apple’s primary target was simply getting the phone out ‘on time’.
IMO, they failed miserably with this release.
IMO, they failed miserably with this release.
Dual-SIM slots are more expensive to manufacture.
China demanded it, so Apple complied. The rest of the world relies on carrier support and eSIM is big barrier to switching carriers. Carriers prefer eSIM.