I love the convenience of physical SIMs. Will hate the day when I don't have a choice but to 'upgrade' to eSIMs.
I have a phone with dual physical SIM card slots. I can go to any country in the world, buy a SIM, put it in, and am up and running. eSIM provisioning at airports is barely available in few coubtries.
I broke the display of my phone? Easy, remove the SIM and put it in a spare phone and I can still make and receive calls.
Not sure why you attracted downvotes with that comment. It's 100% correct. You can buy an eSIM while still in the US and just leave it turned off, then flip it on when you get to your destination. Some providers do still advise waiting to install the eSIM until after you reach their home territory, but that's not any more difficult.
We just did exactly this a couple weeks ago when we went to the UK & France. Super easy, as soon as the plane took off I toggled roaming off on my regular US line, and turned on the traveling eSIM when we landed. Bam, phone works as normal, still gets calls and texts, etc, but way cheaper than paying roaming charges.
I was banned by Total by Verizon for moving my SIM into a different phone. Does it just work with other carriers?
Happy ending though, I switched to US Mobile with an eSIM and disputed the monthly charge by Total on my credit card since I paid for service not provided.
It pretty much works with other carriers. My spouse has Verizon prepaid, and when they get a new phone, just pop the sim out of the old phone and put it in the new one. Same thing with t-mobile US prepaid for me. Around the world it's even more common to just move sims around.
Especially around the turn down of 3g, some US carriers were picky about the phone you used (must support VoLTE on their network or not allowed on a phone plan), but to my knowledge they wouldn't ban your sim, maybe just the phone after some notifications.
SIMs are one of those things that work so well they shouldn't be touched - which doesn't mean doing away with progress (ie. eSIMs) - it means both should coexist.-
Byju's was perplexing as almost every customer of theirs and the target customers knew what Byju's was doing except those in the board, the VC analysts and LPs.
Most Indian kids who could possibly buy Byju's products, could already afford 1 - 1 tuition. That is after a full day's school work, which in itself is a lot given the sheer gruelling regimen the kids go through- Having to work through class work, home work, unit and term tests.
Many schools also offer integrated JEE curriculum and testing.
It was a scam from the very beginning. Its like selling videos of tourist spots to people who can actually go to those places and see it themselves.
I would attribute red tape to only fintech companies. Ideally edtech should have had redtape considering how much rampant these VC funded companies ran riot.
Also, SV has these red tapes too. Bloom Tech -> California BoE anyone? Red tapes are not always a bad thing for the consumers, maybe for those following grow fast and break model.
I have used OAuth2 with and without JWTs as bearer tokens and pretty much used them the same way. JWT helps with fetching the user details without having to hit the DB/backend, and that's basically was the only difference to me.
I believe the issues he is describing is more OAuth2 rather than JWT.
Wow, I have never been more impressed with any other Show HN before. The sheer number of features and platforms you have covered and also keeping to some core engineering principles at the same time is extremely impressive. I will be trying this product for sure and wish you all the best with this app.
Worse in multilingual countries. The websites somehow think I speak the most prominent language in the country when I can't understand a word of it and I prefer English and my own language.
Hangouts (now Meet?) was also a product out of Google+ but considering GChat (the xmpp version) existed before, it was kind of a step backwards.
I think Google Local Guide also has some parts of Google+, not sure.