Apparently, Apple plans to make a port-less iPhone which only uses wireless charging.
This is something I predicted 7 years ago!
Qi - the wireless charging standard - is excellent. Put your phone down on a mat, or in a cradle, and it starts charging. Lovely! But there's a problem. You can't pick up your phone while it's charging. How many times have you lain on
@Edent wireless charging is so wasteful (30% lost to transfer, compared to wire i think?), if everything switches to it it might have a sizeable impact on energy use, not really what we need now :(
Edit: oh, why is that post from 2021 making the rounds now? 😅
@Edent I’m more concerned about being further locked into apple’s ecosystem (or any manuf for that matter) and data access. Okay, neat, I now have an IP66 phone. How do i get my photos into Lightroom? Or if I’m inclined to take spicy photos i don’t want to share with Apple, Google, M$, etc., how do i get those off of my phone without using online storage if I’m not the technical type to run my own Nextcloud instance?
@Edent it was the oblong magnetic connector type (digital ant as marketed), not the round one pictured - so would presume it was higher required tolerances of orientation.
And ... crushing micro usb connectors, and cable ends, yes. Thankfully type c has improved the record, but there still so many cables that can't negotiate over 0.5A charging. Though I have to wonder now it that's not a result of surviving my clumsiness at all.
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