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Soli said:

mattinoz said:

Soli said:

mattinoz said:

emoeller said:

Nope, no cable connector, wireless charging only....

eliminates a dust/water problem
further reduces jail breaks
increases internal space, for larger battery and improves options for internal layouts
bluetooth 5.x

Smart connector -just dots on the case.

I’m in favor of it, but I don’t think we are there yet. I believe inductive chanting will need to become considerably more common, especially in automobiles, before it’s a viable option for Apple.

I’ve also been vocal about wanting Apple to stop including the PSU, and reasoned that: 1) far too many people tend to have plenty of 5W chargers that it’s adding unnecessary waste to supply them with every device purchase, 2) they could market how they are being more green by not including the PSU that doesn’t easily go bad all while being able to use smaller boxes that would allow them to store and ship more iPhones within a given area, and 3) and then could easily charge a nominal fee at checkout for those that do need one. With inductive chargers I am no longer having PVC-free Lightning cables wear out on me so I could even do without the cable, but that’s still just a wish and not some thing I expect to happen anytime soon.

Given the whole reason for the USB-connector mandate was to avoid e-waste from charger brick it is nuts they are still included with every phone. Getting worse as we are now building USB-C ports into workplaces and homes some times even direct DC from Solar/Battery. As you say Wireless Charging is getting close to tipping point availability.  Certainly seeing were ever there are young people. 

Speaking of direct DC, I've tried to look into how designing a home with solar and batteries and then DC power through the home might work. We waste too much energy with converting from AC to DC, but it's understandable on a typical power grid, but with energy-sufficient homes as standard we could avoid the DC to AC to DC with direct DC plugs. I wonder if a 100W USB-C PD would be enough for something like a vacuum cleaner, but a new outlet type specifically for DC may happen down the road.

In the car it's ridiculous that the only way I can charge my MBP is by using an investor from DC to AC just to use a large PSU to convert it back to DC. Recently—and I'm a little embarrassed by how long it took—I realized that I can order a longer USB-C cable and avoid the thick AC cable and the awkward PSU in the middle of the chain. I was institutionalized by Apple not making the DC end pluggable until USB-C.

I think this will take decades to work out and I suspect that it will be a DC power-only connector with no data, which is a reason why I avoid any unknown USB ports of any kind.

FileMakerFeller said:

cgWerks said:

tht said:

It’s the Internet where 90% of the comments are from trolls, wishful thinkers and increasingly bots (if you were on Twitter or Facebook). So, always keep that in mind.

I suppose, but I think also just a ton of ignorant people. I saw a Twitter thread a bit ago where comments were saying you could build 10 PC with better performance for the price and stuff like that. I don't think most people have any clue what it actually is.

That argument is probably worth a closer look. If you can get 10 PCs working in parallel, do you get the same, better, or worse performance than a single Mac Pro? Google famously decided that a huge number of relatively basic machines, hooked up properly, would give better results in aggregate than a smaller number of more powerful machines - and that approach seems to have been the better one, but it's that "hooked up properly" step that took a huge amount of effort.

uujjj said:

I worked as a CPU architect on Nvidia's Denver project and on Apple's CPU cores. This article hits really close to home. DED nails all the details, even stuff that's known to nobody outside my little circle of Nvidia and Apple CPU designers.

wozwoz said:

I really would not want one of those towers in my neighbourhood. I measured the radiation coming out of a 4G mast opposite a shopping centre (as I walked out the shopping mall), and it was shockingly high - the highest level I have measured anywhere - and this is not something next to your body, but coming from a top a building on the other side of the street. Imagine the people exposed to this everyday, sitting in their offices, being radiated 24 x 7!?  And that was 4G.

Ashburn said:

I sure hope they’re working on a battery fix for the Series 5...my experience is much worse than my Series 3