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I have next to no faith this team has the technical chops to create the PortsHub. > The wireless charger features a wide variety of ports including USB-C, USB-
by rektide 5y ago
I have next to no faith this team has the technical chops to create the PortsHub.
> The wireless charger features a wide variety of ports including USB-C, USB-A, thunderbolt, an SD card slot and a headphone jack.
Thunderbolt? Please. This feels like the tell, that this is fantasy only. Anything up to this I would have given the benefit of a doubt to, said maybe this could be done for real. Saying "Thunderbolt" demolished my suspension of disbelief.
That said, I absolutely think this is generally a fairly possible idea, & a good one at that. I agreed with @kube-sys when they discussed the idea of a connectorless device 3 days ago[1]:
> We’re already well on our way to removing connectors and using Qi/WiFi/Bluetooth. I bet we’ll see phones without connectors soon.
Long term, I would love for wigig[2] to finally happen. Thunderbolt might even be possible over it. Alas, adoption has been godforsakenly bad for this great 60GHz ultra-wide-band tech, and seemingly getting worse. If you do want to have wireless thunderbolt, wigig is probably how it happens. There's not many parts available to work with, but there are some. A new generation, 802.11ay, was released July 2021, the first major update since 2010, so maybe we'll see a return of interest/products. Perhaps. (Has anyone seen the new pre-draft Qualcomm 802.11ay chipset from 2018[3]?) I feel like they'll price themselves out of the market, most likely, again.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30133745 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30133745
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiGig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiGig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ay
[3] https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/16/qualcomm-offers-first-802-11ay-60ghz-wi-fi-chipsets-for-wigig-devices/ https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/16/qualcomm-offers-first-802...