I mean, it’s the 21st century & I still have to replace a little piece of plastic and silicon to switch networks like some sort of animal.
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Time to consider a virtual SIM? “…regulators in Netherlands became the first…to legalise network agnostic SIM cards” http://deltapartnersblog.com/archives/766
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@aral , speaking of SIMs, 21st. century etc., I would like to know your opinion on http://www.impot.io -
@Tunam34 404? :) -
@aral , sorry.! http://www.import.io -
@Tunam34 I’m a big fan of scraping — but that’s a proprietary tool — so, again, a squandered opportunity to do massive good. -
@aral , thx, I just wanted to get an expert's view on what they have been building there.
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@aral dude, what? I don't disagree, but that metaphor though. -
@pcperini It’s an ancient piece of tech that takes up unnecessary room. -
@aral but "lock-in play" suggests a great conspiracy of fireplace-makers. -
@pcperini Hmm, maybe that should have been two tweets :)
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@aral I get your point, but to be honest, a fireplace in a spaceship sounds awesome :D - End of conversation
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@aral I'd say the sim makes things easier to switch and gives more user control. Just look at Sprint & Verizon to see the alternative -
@sammachin@aral got to agree with you. My thoughts from few years back http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/05/the-sim-less-phone-is-coming-and-it-should-scare-the-shit-out-of-you/ … -
@edent@sammachin It’s going to happen. We should try and make sure that it’s an open standard and allows easy switching/UX.
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@aral What are you proposing as replacement? The only wifi in my proximity comes from my phone. -
@FrozenFire No need for a physical card. Should be virtual. You should be able to have multiple providers / switch with a single gesture. -
@aral There is a need — they're not just flash cards, they're smartcards. Cryptoprocessors carefully holding a key. -
@aral I'm all for multi-SIM phones (my Chinese-as-hell dual-SIM phones are still among my favourites), but SIMs serve a useful purpose -
@FrozenFire@aral why a physical crypto device when there's available software cryptography and lots of CPU power? -
@claudiopro@aral I'd rather not have the key for my SIM revealed to anything. The goal of a smartcard is guarding the key. -
@FrozenFire@aral not even revealed to you though, only the carrier and those who they share it with -
@claudiopro Ideally, you'd hand over the public key to the carrier on signup, and have your own smartcard
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