Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac:
While early rumors suggested that Apple was holding out for long-range charging, without the need to place the iPhone on a charging pad, those hopes appear to have been dashed by more recent reports. These suggest that Apple will, like other manufacturers, use simple inductive charging.
Apple is now listed as a member of the Qi Wireless Power Consortium. Qi is an inductive wireless charging standard that is already in use in more than a thousand products.
Ben quotes IHS Technology analyst Vicky Yussuff:
The success of wireless charging adoption from Apple’s competitors is something that Apple can no longer ignore. IHS Technology consumer survey data shows over 90% of consumers want wireless charging on their next device.
Note that the Apple uses Qi charging for the Apple Watch:
Apple already uses Qi charging for the Watch, but as The Register noted back in 2015, it uses a tweaked version that means you can’t use other Qi chargers. It seems likely it will do the same with the iPhone.
Conjecture, but reasonable conjecture.
It would be very annoying if Apple used that tweaked version for the iPhone.
For starters, its wireless charging would be worthless in the many modern cars already sold with Qi chargers installed, including the newest ones which offer wireless CarPlay (for which wireless charging would be the natural companion). It’s certainly not possible to easily switch these to a new standard fitting a “tweaked version”.
The Watch is a different case, as I fail to see many occasions were you would want to charge that in a car.
But for the iPhone, I would argue that the train of a charge standard different from Qi has long left the station.
Honest question – what is the appeal of wireless charging? I don’t particularly want a bunch of charging pads lying around the house, and I definitely don’t want to have to pack one when I travel. I can see why Android users might find the crappy micro/mini USB connector annoying, but Lightning is very easy to plug in. Is wireless charging really an improvement?
Indeed Palm made the best one for the Pre. Too bad it was proprietary (it was before qi) and they died.
“The success of wireless charging adoption from Apple’s competitors is something that Apple can no longer ignore.”
What success?
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