Since Apple released its first iPhone in 2007, it has revolutionized the entire mobile phone industry. Its first definition of mobile phone interaction is the use of our fingers to use touch to control the phone, a large touch screen plus a HOME button, both simple and easy to use. The birth of the iPhone swept the flip phone, the slider phone, and the keyboard phone into the trash
Since then, straight large touch screen mobile phones have become popular and have not changed. However, Apple is obviously not satisfied with this, it hopes to continue to simplify the complex, can remove all the physical keys of the phone, and finally make a highly integrated non-porous mobile phone effect.
In fact, Apple has been doing this all these years, and on the iPhone 6S series, Apple has been extremely bold to cut off the 3.5 mm headphone jack that is almost standard for mobile phones. Starting with the iPhone X, Apple has eliminated the iconic front HOME button. Now there is news that Apple's next target is the charging interface and the physical SIM card slot. This is not an empty story
Last year, Apple applied for a patent showing that it would eliminate the charging port, and the solution was to cancel wired charging and use wireless charging to replenish the phone's power. Data transmission, on the other hand, uses a more advanced and blocked WIFI7 mode. Only there is no detailed explanation of how to flash the machine
But considering that the OTA upgrade method has become very popular now, the necessity of line brushing has been greatly reduced, which is actually not a problem. Another opening apple has removed is the physical SIM card slot. The solution is to use a virtual ESIM card. Current iPhone models offer a physical nano-SIM card slot and a digital eSIM. And is expected as soon as next year
Or on the iPhone 15 series the following year, Apple will launch a new dual ESIM virtual card technology to ensure that no physical card slot can also achieve dual card dual standby dual 5G. But considering that many countries around the world do not even have ESIM card services, Apple will be the same as in 2017
Launched dual models that support physical SIM cards and those that do not support physical SIM cards, similar to the iPhone 8 series and iPhone X. But in the future, Apple will decisively abandon the physical SIM card, after which the iPhone will completely enter the era of holeless mobile phones. After the gradual weakening of innovation ability, whether Apple can once again lead the entire mobile phone industry, whether other manufacturers are willing to follow up, it is difficult to say!