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My guess would be that driving that much power through direct connectors would clash with their goal to make everything phone-related increasingly waterproof.
by crooked-v 4y ago
My guess would be that driving that much power through direct connectors would clash with their goal to make everything phone-related increasingly waterproof.
With the purely induction-based method, you can, say, have connectors poolside (assuming you've got long and suitably grounded cables) with no concern from errant splashes.
- vineyardmike 4y agoThe phones are already waterproof with electrodes on the outside of the device. Charging ports are still the outside from a poolside perspective. Magnetic Qu charging is already a standard, they can build off it. It supports plenty of existing chargers. They released it before MagSafe. MagSafe just makes it more efficient in a way that doesn’t require more power.
- fomine3 4y agoWaterproof charge electrodes are thing for a long time. I think Apple loves glass on phone back so they can't adopt it.