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.
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.
"... 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.
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.
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.
Yes, but unless you have 500 iPhones in your house, you won't notice the difference on your electric bill.
They can do this now, but most people don't like the microwaves heating up all the water in their body.
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.
It really isn’t. It opened up iPhone to USB accessories and USB-PD.
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:
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.
