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This is a bad idea... how will you charge such a phone while traveling in cars or on an airplane?
Seriously? I get in my car and hold my phone up to the magsafe car phone mount, and it magnetically adheres. It's automatically in the the right place, and charging. Same at home. For airplane use, I would carry and use a MagSafe charging puck. It's different, but it's not rocket science.
 
Apple is famous for getting rid of things that everyone screams about, but later they're proved to be right. Like the floppy disc drive etc.
Just because a particular technology is not relevant now doesn't mean they made the best decision in the past. They removed the floppy drive before they introduced a CD burner, before USB thumb drives were a thing, and before high speed Internet was ubiquitous. If you wanted to give someone a digital document in the late 90s, a floppy was sometimes the only practical way to do it.
 
Yeah for rich people who can afford that, not the average middle class…
"... ports for one's wireless chargers" - are you saying your car doesn't have the standard "cigarette lighter" power jack? They started putting these in cars 100 years ago, and they've been pretty standard equipment for close to 75 years. I've never seen a car without one. You plug a widely available USB converter into one of these (search Amazon for "usb car charger", there's 30,000 results), and then plug a phone charging cable (direct USB-C or Lightning, or MagSafe puck) into that. Your comment is preposterous - anyone who can afford an iPhone can also afford a car charger for it.
 
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Introducing lightning 2.0, as thin as USB-C but faster and backwards compatible. :rolleyes:
 
lol I think Apple should come up with a new, even thinner proprietary connector just to piss off the EU.
I think there's a decent chance that if Apple shipped a plugless iPhone, it'd have the magnetic, 3-dots, "Smart Connector" power/data connector that modern iPads have (they use it for keyboards and such), as a way to take control over the iPhone if it got seriously hosed and needed to be reloaded. They wouldn't advertise it as "yet another power connector!!!", it'd just be for connecting accessories.
 
That means you would have to upload those large files wirelessly which may not always be possible depending on where you are filming.
(Say shooting a movie somewhere in Africa where cell service is not always the greatest)
Your general idea holds (the Pro models will have USB-C for a long time), but your example is flawed. No one in their right mind would upload large amounts of hi-res movie data over cell service - the production company would be transferring it over local WiFi to a computer that they brought with them. Much higher bandwidth, more reliable, and you don't have to rely on an outside service.
 
Maybe in the next 3 to 5 years there will be a model that has only wireless charging. But it could be delayed. But not sure on how data transfer and its speeds will be without a cable/port.
 
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The biggest reason I was excited that the iPhone was finally getting USB-C is so I can use the same cable to charge multiple devices. I didn't need to carry a Lightning cable just to charge one device anymore.

But if iPhones go portless... I'll again need to carry a dedicated cable (MagSafe puck) that only charges one device.

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The EU regulations require a USB-C port so the 17 Air will have one.

No they do not. They only require USB-C if it has a port, wireless only is specifically allowed in the directive:

15. Can radio equipment that can only be recharged via wireless charging be made available on the market without incorporating the harmonised charging solution?

Yes. Since, such radio equipment cannot be recharged via wired charging, it does not need to incorporate the harmonised (wired) charging solution.

Regarding wireless charging, the Commission will promote the harmonisation of wireless charging in order to avoid future fragmentation of the internal market and any negative effects on consumer and the environment. The Commission will monitor the evolution of all types of wireless charging technologies (not only inductive), particularly market developments, market penetration, market fragmentation, technological performance, interoperability, energy efficiency and charging performance
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Source: Commission Notice – Guidance for the interpretation of the Common Charger Directive

If you can replace the head unit….thats not a given, even on models from a couple of years ago.
Given the integration of the head unit with the car’s buss and non DIN designs with controls for various items, replacing a head unit is pretty much a no go today.

I was able to retrofit CarPlay into an existing head unit, but that is not possible with many cars.

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I would guess that the profit motivated headphone jack delete still has folks angry, and this would be more of the same as there are not many valid reasons to remove it.

I’m not so sure it was a profit driven decsion, more like Apple’s “We think this is the future so we are going to do this…” approach to design.

Other side of the coin is that Mr. Thin! Jony Ive is mostly gone and apple has been adding ports back to machines. So this article might just be rage bait.

If so it worked.
 
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Not every car does. And its not really wireless when it needs to be stuck to a charging pad. Truly wireless charging would be something that changes your phone while you use jt

Lol.
I still make a local secure backup of my iPhone on my mac.

Tell me how i do that without a port?
I don’t want portless but not for these reasons. You can use a puck charger in a car or anywhere, also while you’re using the phone. And I back up my iPhone to my Mac wirelessly while it’s charging every day. The reasons I don’t want portless are:
- MagSafe inefficiency and heat and slower charging
- wired headphone option when desired (lossless quality) or needed (no lag for sync purposes or wireless headphones out of battery)
- (no lag) video output to monitor or headset
- faster data transfer when needed
- Also some people need a port for wired CarPlay
 
This is a bad idea... how will you charge such a phone while traveling in cars or on an airplane?
Em we’ll you plug a small puck mag charger into the usb socket then place your phone on it simples. Supprised you did not thing of that before you posted.

And before you say this new air does not have wireless charging, it would have to have that if they removed the socket
 
Why do people talk about wireless charging like it doesn’t need a cable? The cable is still there and it’s MASSIVE. The only difference is the interface to the phone is less efficient than copper and gold. Total backwards step and may be the thing that finally pushes me to Android if it happens on all phones
 
This is obviously the trajectory.

They got rid of the headphone jack, they got rid of the sim card tray (or at least trying to), next is getting rid of the usb-c port. They be plugging the holes.
 
I wouldn't buy a phone without a USB-C port at this point. I need charging when I am driving as using Waze and Apple Music really drains the battery on the longer drives. I don't bother with MagSafe charging either as I charge overnight. Apple were very keen to push us towards using our older cables and thats the routine I'd say most people are in.
 
Plugging my phone into my Mac to tether network connection just works. Wireless connections work after about 5 minutes of turning it on and off again. This will also FORCE an iCloud backup and their subscription.

Do NOT want.
 
I can see it, but I wonder if they might include something like the iPad's smart connector for data transfer, WiFi only seems like it could cause issues?
 
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I feel like going portless is a ploy to kill off local backups to force everyone to use iCloud for backups

Yes probably. There’s also the probability that they cut features like this to save costs / increase profit. In this case there’ll be the physical cost of the port plus royalties to the usb foundation for using the tech.
 
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