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TheMacMan OP t1_j2ta32d wrote

Reply to comment by FishermanPrize in New Qi2 Standard for Wireless Devices Ensures Enhanced Consumer Convenience and Efficiency by TheMacMan

The idea that Apple wants to do away with all physical jacks is all speculation. There's been zero indication from them that they really want to do so.

While the press release doesn't include much on the spec, I'd assume that if they're integrating MagSafe tech into this, Apple is allowing them to utilize their standards without fee. If there was a licensing fee, other companies aren't going to utilize Qi2.

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MINIMAN10001 t1_j2w31vv wrote

As a consumer I can tell you've I've been bitten by physical wires too many times. It's gotten to the point where I no longer value physical jacks where reasonable.

Unless you can make something like a Nintendo switch dock with its self aligning connector dock I'm pretty burnt on physical connections.

I've also heard a lot of stories of other people having bad luck with cables and their phones in person.

So I wouldn't put it past the phone industry on moving towards that idea in the future.

It's like when I told my brother I no longer planned to get a CD drive for my computer. For the time he thought it was a silly idea. However steam took off and it became the norm.

I'm expecting the same with phones and charging cables.

However phones have a much broader range of prices than your home computer so the lower the cost the phone, the more likely a physical connection.

But apple and samsung would be at the top of my list for people most likely to make such a move.

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Senior1292 t1_j2wb8gi wrote

>But apple and samsung would be at the top of my list for people most likely to make such a move.

Apple will do it first, then Samsung will put out an ad mocking the move only to do the same thing in the next phone iteration or two, as is tradition.

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ecclesiasticalme t1_j2ws57t wrote

What has some innovated before Android/Samsung in the last 10 years?

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FishermanPrize t1_j2tbxk3 wrote

No the fee is for companies to make products that are tested to be safe with whatever extra things apple is gonna toss onto the Qi2 standard for iphones specifically. For instance If I took an apple magsafe charger and tried to use it with android for instance it cap out at like 5w of power. But a regular certified QI charger would still hit at least 7.5w on an iphone.

And while it's speculation, moves like this would seem to indicate that it's what they're working towards. It's not like that speculation comes out of nowhere.

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