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It's slow though and somewhat inefficient compared to fast wired charging. I really wish they would just upgrade the Lightning connector to the industry standa
by Lio 7y ago
It's slow though and somewhat inefficient compared to fast wired charging.
I really wish they would just upgrade the Lightning connector to the industry standard USB-C port that Apple thankfully use on everything else.
- crazygringo 7y agoIt's tricky though. I don't wish that, simply because I don't want to have to upgrade my Lightning-connector dock, speakers, pencil, HDMI dongle, charging cables, and I'm probably forgetting a couple more things. When customers have invested in an entire ecosystem around a connector type, we really don't want to change more often than every 20 years or so. And I personally don't care if it takes 1 hour or 7 hours to charge wirelessly, I'm asleep. The times when I need to emergency-charge during the day I can still use the port though.
- Lio 7y agoI feel your pain with regard to loosing the lightning connector. For me I guess I’d have to buy a new proprietary cable for my car. The cost of replacing all your stuff is one of the consequences of buying things with proprietary connectors. I have an Apple USB Superdrive. It looks great but was purposely designed only to work with a MacBook. No reason for that except to keep me in the “ecosystem”. Apple could release a Lightning to USB-C dongle for you. That would allow you to reuse your Lightning pencil ...if they wanted to.