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boondoggle on March 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: SIM Cards Must Die

Apple already have a patent for a virtual SIM card: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/11/apple_sim_patent/

josteink on March 23, 2012 [–]

I hear Apple and patents have a good track-record of ending up as standardized, reusable technology. A very good track, record indeed.

If this has been already patented by the Cupertino-based patent-troll, it is by definition doomed as a standard.

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