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WarrenBuffduckh said:

Apple just falls into its own traps.
watch charging being a proprietary standard was an intrinsically bad idea where they shot themselves in the foot with AirPower, side charging and their future chargers (as long as they don’t admit and change it)

The size of the watch and the curved base of the Apple Watch dictated the unique charger, not any particular desire to create a proprietary charger - factually it's still so close to the standard that with a steady hand you can charge the watch with a few standard Qi chargers available on the market.

Arguably no port and no cables are the future and best option.

The EU proposal seems redundant/outdated and about as logical as requiring all phones to be the same size so we could use the same phone cases from brand to brand, it's just overreach and purism.

When we think about power: there isn't even a standard power socket, not globally, and not even across the EU, so why are we giving so much importance to this idea when a number of different chargers will always be needed.

Furthermore smart phones are not devices which rely on a shared charging solution, nor are they devices which are frequently moved from person to person - so there is actually no real inconvenience of having different chargers - it's the same way that I can't plug my microwave into a USB slot, or feed my car hay and carrots.

All of this effort would make more sense for electric cars, since they'd need to use a network of charging stations which should work with all models of electric car and currently there is an obscene number of charging plugs for cars.

Also for those people banging on about USB-C, well yes you can already charge your iPhone with the USB C to lightning cable, but that's not the point, the point is that the 32-pin iPod connector was once state of the art technology, we aren't solving anything by choosing a standard today that will invariably be replaced.

To be fair the attraction to AirPower was that it charged all three of Apple's wireless-charging enabled devices at once, and without a specific or fiddly layout configuration. 

It's interesting that we're only really seeing similar products now, each of course thicker and without the ability to charge apple's watch. Since the watch is really just charged at night, just having Apple's own stand is sufficient. What was special about AirPower is that the watch charger wasn't a discrete add-on unit, most of the current designs that incorporate watch charging are relegated to being bed-side units because that's where most people charge their watch.

I maintain that you're better off just having a number of wireless chargers around your home, located in places that you are seated for long durations (computer desk, living room, bedroom) and at the entry point to the home, so you or guests can just place down their phone/airpods on the way in/out.

chaicka said:

Hmmm... Apple is definitely not the first to use the technique of “using manageable public interaction addresses, without revealing their private interaction addresses.” as the mechanism of protection. Namecheap’s WhoisGuard service (used to be paid service on annual fee) uses the same to protect domain owners from having their private email address being exposed in Whois Lookups. So, in this case, Namecheap has infringe Blix’s patent?

The patent as asserted by Blix would also be covering the basic email forwarding specification in RFC 5321, literally section 3.4

3.4.  Forwarding for Address Correction or Updating

   Forwarding support is most often required to consolidate and simplify
   addresses within, or relative to, some enterprise and less frequently
   to establish addresses to link a person's prior address with a
   current one.  Silent forwarding of messages (without server
   notification to the sender), for security or non-disclosure purposes,
   is common in the contemporary Internet.

iqatedo said:

coolfactor said:

Good! If consumers want something other than Apple Pay, they can buy a different device. Simple.

It's at the point in Australia where you're pretty safe to go shopping, eating and clubbing without taking a physical credit card. You can make almost all (if not absolutely all) payments from an Apple watch. Public transport is the hold-out. I guess that competition doesn't exist in the sector, hence the lack of imperative to modernize.

In NSW Apple Pay is accepted on trains/lightrail, busses and ferries (and of course taxis) - which state's public transport service is the hold out? (https://transportnsw.info/tickets-opal/opal/contactless-payments)