jm31828
jm31828 t1_iu4u9rg wrote
Reply to comment by Remarkable-Sector-44 in Esims question by Normal-Question-1994
No, that wasn't working and the store rep was not able to figure it out, had to call advanced support and as noted, they finally had to give up on eSIM and just give me a new SIM card for my 13 Pro.
jm31828 t1_iu4od72 wrote
Reply to Esims question by Normal-Question-1994
In my opinion, eSIM is a huge pain in the a**. I bought a 14 Pro at launch to test it out, and had to activate the eSIM. That part was no problem. HOWEVER- since I decided I didn't want to keep the phone and go back to using my 13 Pro, that is where the problems really began. Instead of simply swapping a SIM card as I would have done in the past, it ended up being a 45 minute visit at the carrier store trying to get an eSIM moved over to my old phone- after that simply failed, they had to give me a new SIM card that was activated on my account to use on my 13 Pro (since the old SIM that was still in it would no longer work, having been transferred over to the 14 Pro's eSIM).
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The ability to quickly and easily swap between phones is a thing of the past with eSIMs.
jm31828 t1_isyr16b wrote
Reply to how is your SE2 holding up? by Cryptanic
Is the SE3 a flop? I know when I tried to order one there was a 3-4 week wait from Apple, so I finally had to go to an Apple store about 20 miles away to pick one up last week that was in stock (128 GB version, no store anywhere within 180 miles of me had the 64 GB version, which I wouldn't have wanted anyway)
Anyway, since the SE3 is so similar to the SE2, I thought I would chime in. I agree with you- I just wish that it had the slightly more modern camera hardware on it, even if just for the main camera- but a 2nd camera lens would have been nice. But, I did some side by side comparisons, taking a picture in my yard with the Se3 and my 13 Pro (I am downgrading as I have sensitivity to the OLED screen on the 13 Pro and just never liked the large size, and prefer touchID)- and then viewed them on my 27" iMac. I honestly am not seeing any difference, even when zooming in to 100% on the pictures.
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These are fantastic phones at a good price, including about 80% of the perks that the mainstream models have on them.
jm31828 t1_iyfekjz wrote
Reply to comment by Reina-Kong in China to punish internet users for 'liking' posts in crackdown after zero-Covid protests by graveaffairsod
Yeah, exactly! My wife is Chinese, living here in the US and all of her family live in Guangzhou, China. There were protests in Guangzhou, and there were videos of people being bussed to these isolation facilities in Guangzhou- but her family back there don't know anything about it... all they hear about are riots at FoxConn factories because workers were being forced to stay on campus or something like that- this news comes out because FoxConn is Taiwanese, and anything to make them look bad is news over there.