nadriel

Finally! Come to papa 16" MBP ... come to papa..

flydog said:

FileMakerFeller said:

charlesn said:

We'll never see a USB-C iPhone. Portless iPhone by model 14 or 15 at the latest. A change from lightning to USB-C for a year or two would be stupid. The only tech obstacle is a fast enough charging speed to match wired, and we're not that far off now. Wireless data transfer is already there. We'd also need some sort of wireless dongle to plug into cars that are wired CarPlay only. Maybe I'm forgetting something, but I see no other major obstacles to a portless iPhone. 

Wireless charging is never going to be as efficient as wired charging,

Never?

That comment won’t age well. 

Never, it's just physics. Simplified version: In a wire the internal resistance affects the efficiency. In a wireless connection there are coils that make a EM field that interacts with another coil. The EM fields weaken fast over distance (double a distance and the strength of a field is reduced to a quarter) plus the internal resistance in the coils. They'd have to be touching to reduce the loss due to distance (i.e. wired).

It can be made more efficient than it is currently, yes. But never as efficient as wired, and never something approaching a superconductor.

I like the first 4 episodes, I can't expect to enjoy every moment. I got over the gender swaps I saw in the trailers, it'd be boring and homogenic if there'd only be male main characters. Most of the characters from the books were quite similar to each other, I prefer this way more for film adaptation.

Compared to a lot of stuff that has come up lately this definitely is above any of the superhero movies or transformers, I just don't enjoy watching them. This all comes down to subjective experiences, I won't judge anyone if they don't like the show, it is their opinion. But I sure as hell can tell them too that out of the dumb superhero worlds DC is a million times better than Marvell and this is more enjoyable than either of them. >;-)

redgeminipa said:

nadriel said:

Personally? I’m not buying iPhone 13, because of upcoming ASi MBP 16” that will run me dry. After that I’d go for new Apple Watch. But I’d still name the lack of USBC as the reason for not upgrading o iPhone 13 now, just so they’d make one that has the port. I hope the EU law passes quickly.Also, I don’t think there will be a portless iPhone within the next 5 years at least, but I wouldn’t bet any money on it (need that for the RAM & storage upgrades).

Edit: But I very much like the 13 offering over my 7, I’d go for mini if it’d be a bit wider. But my 7 still works and, MBP 16” will take all my tech spending budget for the whole year.

USB-C? People need to stop beating dead horses with this one. I'd almost wager the iPhone will go port-less before Apple takes it USB-C. With 5G expanding, and wireless in general getting much faster, cables will end up being a thing of the past within a few years. If you think the majority would be perfectly fine with the port changing again, they won't. MagSafe will be the next data transmission method. Also, if Apple is able to stop putting anything other than the phone in the box, that's the route they'd rather take. USB-C cables aren't all the same, and too many people end up buying cables that can't transfer data. Apple wants to avoid that with their best selling device. 

I might plug in my iPhone twice per year, if that. I'm nearly 100% wireless already. 

Yup there are different cables, but so there are for for other port standards. 5G is not the answer for local data transfer, but sure is quicker and better than older generations, as it should be.

Have you seen any statistics on how many use MagSafe? I haven’t, are they really that widespread?

Wireless data currently goes over three major protocols: cellular, Bluetooth and WiFi (and NFC but that doesn’t really count in this case). If you add wireless to MagSafe, would it use existing protocols or make a new one, will it function like NFC or Bluetooth? Arguably, it’s still wired since you need to plug MagSafe in the computer.

USBC is not a dead horse.. If it’d be that why add it to new products like iPad mini now? Wireless charging is limited and not as efficient as wired, nor is it closely as fast as wired and wireless is prone to network congestion. So no, I’d wager that USBC is not going away anytime soon.

The messed up standards for cords by USB-IF is a problem, but that’s much easier to solve than making up a new wireless data transfer protocol that can compete with USB4. That’s why I’d say no portless iPhones for the next 5 years. But I wouldn’t claim to be able to predict what Apple will do or what they think as an outsider, so I’d not risk my money on this. Nor should you claim that it as gospel that Apple will go portless rather than having USBC in their iPhones, we simply don’t know.

Or is it you Tim?

RudolfGottfried said:

Unsurprisingly, Prosser still is touted as a "prominent leaker", even though he totally screwed up on the Apple Watch 7 issue. After all, the click cow has to be milked as long as there is still a drop of milk in the udder. 

Love it or hate it, he is a leaker. He's an obnoxious personality for sure, but you should check apple track for breakdown for the 74% accuracy: https://appletrack.com/jon-prosser/

Well, I'd call these personalities more like repeaters rather than leakers, they're not *IN* Apple so they can't leak anything. Rather, they repeat or publish leaks by others, but they are already called leakers so.. *shrug*.. Analysts are a different breed altogether, that's more in the line of educated guesses.