Simon B. StøvringIt's weird to me that the MacBook Pro still doesn't have an eSIM. Sure, we can create a personal hotspot on our iPhone, but anyone who uses that regularly knows that it drains the battery incredibly fast.
Holger Krupp@simonbs I guess (and hope) they will introduce eSIM when Apple finally produces their own modems. I guess they don’t want to pay license fees to Qualcomm for a feature only few will be using.
jnakoda@simonbs I'm 100% with you. There’s something even more insidious about iPhone’s tethering: it stubbornly uses Wi-Fi channel 149. In a crowded train filled with people working on their laptops with Wi-Fi tethering to their iPhones, the tethering becomes unusable even when the 5G signal is full. My tethering's network performance restored straight away the moment I got out of that train.
Also just for fun, Apple introduced a hidden feature to see how busy a Wi-Fi channel is on macOS 15! When you're connected to Wi-Fi, open a terminal and type `sudo wdutil info`. Look for the "CCA" percentage. The higher the percentage, the busier the Wi-Fi channel.
Konrad Kołakowski@simonbs This is weird that they haven't done it for 4 years now 🤷♂️ Especially that iPads have data modem, and they basically have the same hardware now. It's like the obvious „low hanging fruit" for MacBooks now. It could be super useful for many.