Clearly you don't live in the city. When the wireless spectrum is congested any wireless protocol is utter crap.
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Gurman: Apple Considered Removing Lightning Connector on iPhone X
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Clearly you don't live in the city. When the wireless spectrum is congested any wireless protocol is utter crap.
What are the advantages of switching to USB-C for an iPhone user?
The average user already have multiple lighting cable and accessories, the lighting port is reversible and the end of the cable is smaller. You could use the same cable to power the Mac and the iPhone, but you'll end up using dongles to connect accessories or to use old cables.
Let's see how Qi charging pads are deployed in places like hotels, restaurants, bars and cars. As soon as wireless charging is everywhere I'm sure Apple will remove the cable.
Too bad their own charger isn't available yet, it means it isn't so easy to implement wireless charging and they need more time. Of course 2017 was too early, but they'll get there
As a consumer you always have the freedom to buy a product from a different company
One person at Apple doesn’t decide these things, certainly not now with Steve Jobs no longer around.
Hope so. Because the idea for now looks really bad. Mind you, I'm one of the few that did not mind so much going all USB-C with the Macbooks, neither minded when they got rid of CD-ROM and Floppies. The headphone jack I was kind of neutral. But this idea is not in the name of good design, for now at least.
Sales are not a good barometer of whether or not it's a good decision. If you want iOS, that doesn't mean you don't want a headphone jack or lightning port, it means you want iOS, and you are willing to suffer with the other garbage. Same with the newer MacBook Pros. The keyboard is a horrible, terrible, piece of garbage. The USB-C ports are waaaaay ahead of their time. No HDMI port is simply a money grab so you'll have to buy adapters. But yet, if you want MacOS and a new machine, you have no choice.
Like the poster above says, it's an abusive relationship. Once you are in the Apple ecosystem and like it, you actually lose options. You want their software, but you are stuck with their consumer unfriendly hardware decisions.
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This is exactly the case. Gurman doesn't know what the **** he's talking about, and this is just for the clicks.
Well, the phones already had wireless audio and they still removed the 3.5mm jack, making the phone way less convenient (at least for me). It doesn't seems that convenience or capability are part of Apple's design maxims. It's mostly about maximizing profits.
Only if I didn’t have to charge my iPhone 3+ times a day using a powerbank when i am out and about
Airport / public locations would upgrade with Apple supplied parts! very simple - more money for apple - screw you people.
The flip side is if Apple doesn't sell very many iPhone because people want a wired charging solution then Apple will be forced to update their other stagnate products.
Very sloooooow and what I can gather not particularly efficient either
Not everyone wants an RF device right up next to their heads - whether it be the phone, or some type of wireless earpiece. And I know people don't want to use the speakerphone all the time.
A stupid move.
A stupid move.
Your private jet has no wireless charger? What a pleb!
It's not practical at all when it comes to charging and I see this an added cost for the consumers and the public sector, if they choose to purchase wireless charging equipment. There are situations where I prefer to connect with hardwire over total reliance of WiFi.
Initially I believed Apple would replace the present connector with USB-C, however their vision is of a true wireless future.
AirPower = Charging ones device.
AirPods = Listening to music and answering calls.
Wireless sync with iTunes for backup purposes has existed for a while.
What I hope Apple to offer to conform to their vision is more iCloud standard free storage for idevices back-up and restor, considering the Mac sees no loves theses days.
iPhones and Apple Watch will be dust and waterproof with no ports, the mic and speaker openings to drain any liquid ingress has been addressed by the Apple Watch.
A slab of glass with a stainless steel frame is where the iPhone and Apple Watch design language is heading. The magnetic linking system introduced with the Apple Watch will be introduced in a future iPhone and will be implemented in the AirPower mat.
Exciting times, however I will miss using my lightening wired earphones. Don’t like charging wireless earphones.
The day the remove the charging port is the day I will leave Apple, I could handle the aux port going but a power port removal is a bridge to far from me unless they perfected wireless charging without the pad
Until they decide to copy Apple stupid decisions. Android use to be great now the phones are just as expensive, they are removing headphone jacks (copy Apple) and now have ugly notices (again copy Apple).
They need to fix WiFi sync before they even think about this. It is so hit-and-miss that things actually get synchronized, and I still want to keep my photos on my computer, not iCloud, so a solution to that should be worked out.
You can get Qi charging pads that fit in cars and connect via USB to any vehicle. So this is a nonissue, though not as integrated as one would prefer, this is a transitional phase.
Many new cars come with Qi chargers standard, now the question is standard charging rate or fast charging. I believe the consortium was looking to double the present fast Charging from 15W to 30W super charging option, which will open the door for tablets to be Qi compliant.
