Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
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Re: Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
#2Just switch to wireless Qi charging and eliminate cords altogether.
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#3Good. Wireless Qi charging is too slow, and Apple is still being a dongle diva by constantly inventing its own special connectors.
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#4Enforcing a mandatory switch to USB-C is moot with Qi charging kicking around and widely supported.
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#5This is a fantastic piece of legislation.
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#6To everyone that thinks no ports, Qi only iPhones are the future. What if you want to use your phone while it chargers? Charge your phone in the car?
I think we are another 10 years at least from having a device that could last long enough off a single charge to warrant occasionally leaving it on a pad over night as the main charging method.
Re: Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
#7To everyone that thinks no ports, Qi only iPhones are the future. What if you want to use your phone while it chargers? Charge your phone in the car? I think we are another 10 years at least from having a device that could last long enough off a single charge to warrant occasionally leaving it on a pad over night as the main charging method.
I would not be a fan of not having a charging port, but I Qi charge my phone in the car every day. It's fine. One of my cars has it built-in to the armrest, and in another I have a third-party mount with an integrated Qi charger.
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#8So basically some subset of EU Parliament legislators have an opinion about something.
In Apple's defense, the lightning connector and previous iPod connector both served as a charging cable and computer interface cable. So it was never the same situation as the old devoted phone chargers.
And they invented them without any standard alternatives available. If this passes, the next time you think about inventing an interface and start with all your products and the whole accessory market, remember the EU Parliament might legislate away your right to use it.
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#9To everyone that thinks no ports, Qi only iPhones are the future. What if you want to use your phone while it chargers? Charge your phone in the car? I think we are another 10 years at least from having a device that could last long enough off a single charge to warrant occasionally leaving it on a pad over night as the main charging method.
My car has an option for a built in Qi charger. It’s in the spot you normally put your phone anyway.
That being said, how would you service a portless phone? There would be no more DFU mode.
Re: Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable
#10Don't most folks speculate they're going to abandon it within the next generation or two?
I don't want government telling me what ports I can use in my design to be frank. I get there are issues out there, but this is something that the invisible hand of the market has done a good job of culling. Remember how it used to be with every device having a wack connector? Nowadays you can count on pretty much anything being a common variant of USB.