[kbrwn]

To 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.

[jedberg]

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.

[danaris]

And how would you activate CarPlay? At the moment it's wired-only, and I'm skeptical as to whether it could be made to work over Bluetooth in existing cars. If you bought a new car today with wired CarPlay, you might still be driving it in 5 or even 10 years, and you really wouldn't want to lose the ability to actually use CarPlay in just a year or two.

[BuckRogers]

There’s wireless Carplay today.

[danaris]

Really? Neat, I hadn't heard about that. I will have to look it up. I wonder if my car supports it.

[jedberg]

I think only BMWs support it right now.

[danaris]

Well, that lets me out, for sure. Ah, well.

[mcgoo]

It seems like it’s essential right now at least. The Apple Watch has a hidden lightning port that I have never even seen.

[jedberg]

You’ve never seen it because it doesn’t exist. :)

It was an unsubstantiated rumor.

[ta999999171]

Really poorly secured wireless interfaces that can be hijacked by 3LAs.

[kart23]

They could do something like the apple watch. There would be a strong magnet on the bottom of the phone and a miniature coil? Or just like a couple contact pads on the bottom exclusively for power. Kinda like the smart connector. They could do it and still have the ability to satisfy wire-like use cases.

[zippergz]

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.

[opless]

I've almost completely moved to Qi charging my phone.

Oddly it took a while for me to find an in car CD mount type, as most of them are air vent types.