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by Nbox9 2057 days ago
Lightning port is there for legacy reasons. It use to be much better than the USB options. Now USB-C is good enough, and when they kill the lightning port a billions of cables will become useless in just a handful of years.

I’d honestly prefer to see the wired charging port go away completely. Wireless charging is cheap and good.
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x3ro 2056 days ago
That'd be amazing. Finally I could throw away all of my very good but obviously obsolete wired headphones and buy some AirPod Pro's instead*

* battery not replaceable, buy new headphones every 3-5 years

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LeonenTheDK 2056 days ago
If they killed the port entirely, wouldn't everyone then be buying wireless chargers? Or is a "one time" purchase of a wireless charger for everyone better in the long term than one type of cable everywhere constantly being produced?
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capzulu 2056 days ago
They did the same with the wired headphones. Removing the jack instantly killed thousands of wired headphones.
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