Since other companies frequently follow Apple’s lead in cellphones, this week’s debut of an iPhone without a conventional SIM card raises questions about the future of a very known piece of phone technology.
The little plastic cards that need to be carefully placed into phones in order for them to work will be familiar to all phone users. But for those who purchase an iPhone Air, this will no longer be an issue.
It will only function with an eSim, which enables consumers to transfer plans or networks without having to pry open a tiny SIM card tray with a laborious fork.
Apple’s release “marks the beginning of the end of the physical SIM card,” analyst Kester Mann told News.
