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> Supposedly you could remove your SIM card (who carries that tool doohickey with them at all times?) In sane handsets (ones where the battery is still removab
by wannacboatmovie 2y ago
> Supposedly you could remove your SIM card (who carries that tool doohickey with them at all times?)
In sane handsets (ones where the battery is still removable), that tool was and still is a fingernail, which most have on their person.
I believe the innovation of the need for a special SIM eject tool was bestowed upon us by the same fruit company that gave us floppy and optical drives without manual eject buttons over 30 years ago.
- rzzzt 2y agoYou could operate the ejection mechanism by hand both on optical and floppy disk drives with an uncurled paperclip (or a SIM card ejection tool were they to exist at that point in time). But I wouldn't ascribe the introduction of the motorized tray to the fruit company, it was the wordmark company: https://youtu.be/bujOWWTfzWQ https://youtu.be/bujOWWTfzWQ
- amluto 2y agoI have fond memories of the fruit company taking the next step: removing the floppy drive bezel from the drive and instead having the floppy drive slot be part of the overall chassis front panel. Of course, their mechanical tolerances were nothing like they are today, so if you looked at the computer crosseyed, the front panel would fail to align to the actual internal disk path, and ejecting the disk would cause it to get stuck behind the front chassis panel. One could rescue it by careful wiggling with a tool to guide the disk through the slot or by removing the entire front panel. Meanwhile “PCs” had a functional but ugly rectangular opening the size of the entire drive, and the drive had its own bezel, and imperfect alignment between drive and case looked a bit ugly but had no effect on function. (I admit I’m suspicious that Apple’s approach was a cost optimization, not an aesthetic optimization.)