> eSIM has one and only one user-friendly use-case: ahead of traveling abroad, to buy a local cell subscription without hassle of having to show up to a shop, o

> eSIM has one and only one user-friendly use-case: ahead of traveling abroad, to buy a local cell subscription without hassle of having to show up to a shop, or wait for mail-in. And that's a pretty marginal one at that. When I've gotten SIMs for traveling, it was either <20 min at little shop (where I paid cash), or something I had mailed to me ahead of time which I swapped in the airport.