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mikethemartian said:

I wonder how long it is going to be until someone figures how to use this to hack your iPhone before you purchase it.

This would require the hacker to have access to the Presto hardware and all the documentation about how it works. If a hacker can obtain an iPhone before it's sold, there are far easier ways to hack it.

apple4thewin said:

Imagine apple makes data transfer available via magsafe like those patents many years ago

MagSafe/Qi chargers operate in the region of 360KHz. Why would Apple try to funnel data through that interface when multi-Gbps Wi-Fi is right there?

tht said:

Rudimentary math states that 2024-2008 = 16 years. 

Thinnovation!

The wedge shape was retired in 2022, with the introduction of the M1 MacBook Air.


One might reasonably wonder why it took AI two years to tell us about it.

I hope they make a short keyboard with black keys.

How would these clones connect to iCloud? You'd think their deception would become obvious the moment you actually tried to use the phone.

tyler82 said:

What about solar battery regeneration? A lot of people use their phones outside. Would it be possible to install solar cells behind the display?

The math doesn't work. Full sunlight on an iPhone 15 screen would produce about 9W. High efficiency solar cells might convert 22% of that, giving you about 2W of electric power. A transparent display is impossible, so you're going to block a lot of sunlight with the light emitting pixels. LEDs can't be transparent, as the light would emit in all directions, not just towards the viewer. Even with transparent areas between opaque pixels, I doubt you could get a fill ratio of less than 80%, and the transparent layer and screen surface will reflect a few % each. So you might get 100mW of power in full sunlight. I imagine such a display might consume more than that in extra power to make the transparency possible.