Apple on course for wireless charging in iPhones?
Don’t hurt me
Ever tried to extricate the pocket lint out of the lightning connector on your iPhone? Ever broken the contacts inside the port when you did so? There’s one reason your local mobile repair shop is geared up to fix a broken power port for you. Wireless charging eliminates this problem.
For most iPhone users, the fantasy of wireless charging is also about convenience. We all love the idea of being able to slap our iPhone down on the mat, knowing the device is getting recharged. The problem with existing wireless charging solutions is that they cost more energy to use than plugging the devices in, making them environmentally damaging. Why use more power than you need, and what’s the effect of encouraging a billion iOS users to do so? In what way would that leave the world a better place?
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