Why Apple Won't Adopt a Wireless Charging Standard

Lucas123 writes As the battle for mobile dominance continues among three wireless charging standards, with many smartphone and wearable makers having already chosen sides, Apple continues to sit on the sideline. While the new Apple Watch uses a tightly coupled magnetic inductive wireless charging technology, it still requires a cable. The only advantage is that no port is required, allowing the watch case to remain sealed and water resistant. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, however, remain without any form of wireless charging, either tightly coupled inductive or more loosely coupled resonant charging. Over the past few years, Apple has filed patents on its own flavor of wireless charging, a "near field" or resonant technology, but no products have as yet come to market. If and when it does select a technology, it will likely be its own proprietary specification, which ensures accessory makers will have to pay royalties to use it.

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Wireless charging hit mainstream ~ 1-2 years ago

[Anonymous Coward]

So next year, Apple will "invent" it for the masses, using their own proprietary (read: expensive) version of it.

Re:Wireless charging hit mainstream ~ 1-2 years ag

[TeknoHog]

I understand. I haven't logged in to work for a couple of years, and it's been awesome.

Re:Maybe it's for the same reason

[zieroh]

oh dont get me wrong, I do love apple. It takes a large number of people who i used to fix their things for free to telling them to talk to apple because i dont do it.

  but as a power user, and i think thats who makes up the majority of this site, in no way does taking away functionality = an upgrade

You're being far too reasonable. Where's the inchoate rage at the existence of any product not tailor-made for linux geeks? Where's the cognitive dissonance caused by other people liking something that you yourself do not approve of?