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Re:Apple is working with Energous on wireless charging by usaphp on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:21PM (#12509909)
People complain that they don't innovate and also complain that they don't use standards, you can't innovate while using standards I think
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Re:Apple is working with Energous on wireless charging by satysin on Friday September 16, 2016 @02:35AM (#12512263)
Of course you can. Look at the web.
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Re:Apple is working with Energous on wireless charging by oarsinsync on Friday September 16, 2016 @04:23AM (#12512622)
Indeed. Microsoft broke with standards, and introduced the non-standard IXMLHTTPRequest API for their browsers. It later became a standard, but it certainly wasn't when it first happened.

Major innovation doesn't come from standards bodies, it comes from operational implementation and later opening up the implementations for standardisation. Unfortunately, Apple has not demonstrated a lot of interest in the latter part in technologies where it would be really really nice for end users (FaceTime, iMessage), but has in other areas that may benefit developers (Swift).

Who knows what'll happen in future.

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Re:Apple is working with Energous on wireless charging by simdiab on Friday September 16, 2016 @04:44AM (#12512681)
No you can't. Look at the web.
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