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by andrewfromx 1183 days ago
I think it comes down to a human coming home from a long day at work and dropping their keys and phone down on the table where they always drop them. Then there is that one extra step. Plug in the phone and make sure the connection is working and the cable hasn't gone bad yet. But with wireless the human can drop the phone with the same level of "I'm done" as he can drop the keys.
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_8ysf 1183 days ago
> But with wireless the human can drop the phone with the same level of "I'm done" as he can drop the keys.

Making sure that it's aligned correctly, and that the cable hasn't gone bad yet, right?

I get the marketing story here, but I don't believe it somehow...

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andrewfromx 1183 days ago
dude my lighting cables go bad all the time! Also the connection to my iphone gets dust and lint in it preventing the connection from working. Every time I plug in I check to see if it's _really_ charging with the battery icon.
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_8ysf 1183 days ago
I've had smartphones, too ;-).

I sometimes clean the dust off the connector, it helps. And then it is a problem that the connectors tend to break. But is the solution really to design a less efficient charging system (wireless)? I mean, maybe they could make the connectors more robust/easier to replace.

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andrewfromx 1183 days ago
I see the future: phones come with 1 tiny drop of plutonium (not actually plutonium) and they have enough power for years. Joking of course but we are not that far away from that.
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_8ysf 1183 days ago
> Joking of course but we are not that far away from that.

I couldn't disagree more :). I think we are reaching the peak of fossil fuels, and we don't have relevant alternative energies. So we will have less and less energy in the future, and we will need to handle that. Chances are that hydrogen-based planes will be completely useless, because even if we can make them work today (in a world full of fossil fuels), we will need hydrogen for more important things than flying rich people going on holidays.

We talk a lot about climate change, but we have a global energy problem. Unfortunately, we still have enough fossil fuels to finish messing up the climate, so we will do that. But climate change is "just" a complication on top of it: one very big problem we have is that we don't have a replacement for fossil fuels, and fossil fuels are limited.

We will globally have less energy in the future. We should stop wasting it.

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