Wireless charging is a dumb gimmick. Apple just doesn't learn. Now, after whittling away its battery capacity to achieve thinness that NO ONE ASKED FOR, it's going to waste even more space on inductors inside the phone.
And wireless charging would not mitigate the idiotic removal of the headphone jack, which means you can't charge your phone and listen to music if you're not in the electrical field of yet another proprietary piece of Apple junk. So no dice at the airport. Or in your car. Or at someone else's house.
This headphone-jack stupidity is even more embarrassing for Apple. Again, supposedly in pursuit of more unasked-for thinness, Apple is going to make its MUSIC-PLAYING PHONES unusable with just about every headphones on the planet. Oh, unless you buy special NEW ones or yet another cumbersome, rip-off dongle to hang out of (and destroy) the already incompetent Lightning port. Oh, and this sorry dongle prevents the phone from fitting in docks. Or cases. Or your pocket.
Where have we seen this before? Oh, right: the idiotic Shuffle that had no controls on it, but instead required special headphones with a button in the cord; you had to control the Shuffle with a gimped Morse code. This retarded product was yanked off the market and replaced with the previous design after one generation.
And THAT came after the headphone fiasco of the first iPhone. Remember how the original iPhone's headphone jack was inexplicably buried at the bottom of a hole, making it incompatible with 99 percent of the headphones out there? Again, Apple had to scrap that blunder in the next generation.
So after two headphone-related debacles so large that even Apple had to correct itself, it's going for a third and even more offensive assault on its customers?
We as consumers owe it to the entire industry to smack this craven stupidity down with a boycott. If you vote for such an offensive product with your money, you're rewarding a company that clearly regards you as stupid.
