Ok. And what if i am on a trip to Africa and need to backup my phone.
Not every place (even in the us) has high speed internet.
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'iPhone 17 Air' is Step Towards Slimmer iPhones Without USB-C Ports
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Ok. And what if i am on a trip to Africa and need to backup my phone.
Not every place (even in the us) has high speed internet.
The whole industry will copy this...just watch history, sorry, but you will be forced to adapt
Yea, Apple should continue to support the 0.1% of their user base, not the 80%…
What fun it was in the pre-internet days when we didn’t have to worry about backups, charging devices etc…
what if......the only if is IF apple start doing this, the whole industry will slowly adapt and you will have to
Apple is not interested in your imaginary scenario "what if" Apple is a profit company like the rest
Forced... lol
There isn't a tech company on earth that I'm forced to do business with.
Snark: Then just don’t go. You can watch Africa documentaries while your phone slowly charges via “wireless”
Thats not a what if.
There are literally places in the US that have no cell service and rely on this like starlink.
Next time do some research before you talk about things you are not knowledgeable in.
I work in this field. So…
What 0.1% are you referring to? Surely using the phone as a general computing device applies to higher than 80%.
So, does Apple care about you or me? No, they showed they are a big and strong impact company that moves forwards and doesnt care about normal, living in the past customers....if they cared, we would still have optical iphone headphone jack Apple devices in 2025
You might, but I won't be. Chances are in five years I'll still be using my 16 pro.
My wife used her previous Pixel for seven years.
Mine does and my phone got unacceptably hot. I never use it and have zero desire to buy a phone that has no port.
These same folks will argue for a portless Mac as well, having zero concept of or value for use cases other than their own.
Why would there need to be? If you plug a USB-C or Lightning cable into the bottom of your iPhone, how is it taking any more space to have a MagSafe cable stuck to the back of your phone? Cable hanging off the back of your phone versus plugged in the bottom — not really a “space” issue unless I’m not understanding you correctly.
The directive specifically allows for wireless charging; it only requires USB-C if there is a port.
the need for a wired port, even though I use a cable for backups, I've been told many times here on MR that a port is not needed anymore, and I agree with that.
OK so only 0.1% need a wired port? Do you have a citation for that number or did you just now make that up?
I was more wondering how current WiFi transfer speeds compare to USB 3 (keeping in mind you need to have that WiFi capability on both your iPhone and your computer).
From what I've read, WiFi 8 won't appear on consumer devices until about 2028. That means, on average, for people who replace their Macs every 3 or 4 years, that even if their iPhone has WiFi 8, their Mac probably won't have it until 2030+.
Thus, if do you want to look to the future, a better comparision to WiFi 8 would be whatever the standard smartphone wired connection will be in about 2030 (which will certainly be much faster than USB 3).
you should enjoy those areas as you won't have access to social media etc etc ...
repeating myself: in the pre-internet days I travelled to 5 continents without a cellphone, GPS etc, somehow I survived
After the first backup the rest should be incremental; even a wired connection will take a long time if you back up teh entire phone each time vs incremental.
A port has nothing to do with internet speeds since it is a physical connection and not wirelessly to a network; unless you are using USB to Ethernet, in which case high speed internet would not matter anyway.
I suspect wireless only phones are a ways off as well; and probably would not be introduced across an entire line at once; and as long as the speed is similar to what a wired connection is it won’t matter to most users.
People are acting klike apple will introduce wireless only in the iPhone18 line. I would guess it would first appear on the low end, simply because people using higher end phones are more likely to use peripherals requiring a port.
Given PC port speeds are much faster often than phone ports I suspect phones will lag behind for the near future.