How do people who wear watches on their right wrist move the physical button to the left side of the watch so turning or pressing it doesn't block their view? Do they have to wear the watch upside down?
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The iPhone 14 Is Unlikely to Be Portless, Here's Why
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That’s not the evidence of “well documented and reported”. But to each their own.
Tens of thousands of people complaining about failure rates associated with the intrinsic design of a product and multiple news reports explaining how that design leads to observed failure isn’t evidence?
Not all evidence comes from peer reviewed double blind experimental design. Evidence supports high failure rates of lighting cables.
A few apologists disagreeing doesn’t change anything.
I’ve been looking at these and on the one forum I’m a part of, people seem to like them.
Ummm… yeah. There are actual settings in the watch app to do just that. The display will flip depending on the settings.
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There has to be over 1 billion lightning cables out there. 10000/1billion is .01%. Certainly one should understand there is no “real issue” at .01%.
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CarPlay is just one example of an entire world of wired infrastructure that people on tech blogs like to pretend don’t exist.
Besides you making that up, it fails to acknowledge the number of cable where no one says anything because it was expected.
I’d say the failure rate rounds up to 100% because they all die eventually. If yours haven’t it’s because it hasn’t happened yet.
I didn't read the artilcle but there is ONE main reason that Apple won't go portless. You need to be able to charge the phone AND they want to upsell the MagSafe charger. If they had no port they would need to include the MagSafe charger in the box and that is a great revenue source for them.
My F150 has wireless CarPlay and it works just fine. Pretty sure many other cars are following suit. Do I think Apple would care about making your phone not work if you car doesn't support wireless CarPlay? Not really. Especially not if they release their own car lol
The point is with the sheer number of lightning cables, iPads, AirPods, iPhone since the 5, etc that are out there the failure rate for a useful life (not infinite) is what? Do you know? Because a cable failure was reported in light of the billion plus that probably are out there doesn’t mean squat.
You’re entitled to your opinion, but I’m not convinced.
But you are making those numbers up while I do nothing but present actual evidence. You're only reply is that you don't like what I present. To bad. Show me the actual numbers of cables being used every day and working for a few years. Failure rates appear to be strongly in the double-digits.
1. sad but true.
2. sad but true, but sometimes good. But when it’s sad but true, it’s usually an unnecessary step backwards for the sake of forced-innovation.
3. Would love to hear of a real example.
4. BS. That’s an old-news red herring weak thought.
5. Fair enough, the silly notch was not enough to get in the way of selling like hotcakes. Can’t argue with that. I replaced my iPhone 8 with a 12 mini and I’m satisfied with the phone even if I’m dissatisfied with the missing real estate that could have allowed me to see a battery percentage. Any hotcakes-selling is no proof that the notch was great. The notch just wasn’t enough to fail the selling.
Apple and “going green” somehow doesn’t mix well with “50%” energy waste.
“Failure rates appear to be strongly in the double digits “ is an opinion. Or….making numbers up. Anyway it’s great your sources are 7 year old articles and anecdotal YouTube videos.
Well, we can‘t compare Lightning cables to USC-C cables charging iPhone, for comparison, can we?
I think it‘s not going to get better by by ditching Lightning for USB-C - quite the contrary (which is not to say that wireless charging will incur less wear and tear on the accessories though).
Even these wireless charging pucks have cables attached, haven‘t they?
A Smart Connector, you say?
So somehow your wireless charging pad can magically draws power from thin air? Or your house has one of those innovative “power station” hanging atop powering your phone that way?
Real wireless charging has no wire to the device receiving power. It's pretty cool. Did you see the new Samsung remote that is charged with wifi? That's basically it, but the tech is out there for other stuff too. So You can get adapters to always keep your xbox controller charged or power a door lock without needing batteries. The wireless power smart shades are pretty cool too.
They also have wireless qi chargers. Basically, the power is sent to qi base and then you lay your phone on it. The only thing stopping directly to phone charging is OEM support. I want to say they produce somewhere around 3W of power over 2000 square feet. It won't move a car but it can supply IoT in a large family room.
Apples I/O has been a constant state of a disappointment for about a decade now. A state they don't seem to want to change. Last year Apple brought out ProRes, a gimmick that chews through storage at an alarming rate, only to be crippled further by a USB-2 interface now a generation out of date. I hate to think how long that video transfer would take. iPhones need high-speed USB-C first before they talk about "purely wireless" phones.
It seems to me that Apple has a vision of where it wants to take personal computing and cables and ports are probably not part of that vision.
The total number of cables being used every day is at least the total number of iPhones and iPads.
If the average person buys six cables a year the number of iPhones and iPads sold tells you nothing about the reliability of the cable.