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> A virtual SIM is a mobile phone number provided by a mobile network operator that does not require a SIM card to connect phone calls to a user's mobile phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_card#Other_variants

This isn't about Apple becoming an MVNO, this is about Apple somehow controlling the process of configuring your phone because you no longer have the option to choose a SIM card and insert it yourself.

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This is FUD. It’s about streamlining configuration of plans and activation and getting rid of physical widget

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/tutorials/topic/esim/activa...

This is marketing. It's about putting Apple in the middle of plans and activation, and getting rid of a physical standard.

Guess what. Apple can dent physical sims too though

Why do you think you a physical sim for different providers. Because they only work with that provider. Apple can turn the tap off on a class of Sims as it is

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