Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut

Re:Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut by sambe on Saturday November 05, 2016 @03:44PM (#12881512)

They claim you cannot connect a new iPhone to a new MacBook Pro without a dongle. Even ignoring the fact that you probably don't have to, you can do this wirelessly. Is it really necessary to buy a dongle for your iPhone for anything realistic?

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Re:Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut by Trombone12 on Saturday November 05, 2016 @03:46PM (#12881515)

I didn't know you could charge over wireless! That's really cool!

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Re:Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut by sambe on Saturday November 05, 2016 @04:01PM (#12881588)

Wow, downvotes for a reasonable question. I never need to connect my phone to my laptop. I've also spotted a pattern of the BBC saying dubiously truthful things recently in tech articles. Example from main evening news last week: "foreigners get better mobile reception in the U.K. than we do". So, no, they obviously don't. But they roam between providers (at cost), as has been the case for decades.

The phone comes with a charger.

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Re:Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut by gaius on Sunday November 06, 2016 @03:04AM (#12884098)

It's not recent - their tech journalism has always been pretty poor. The BBC is a branch of the civil service culturally; anyone who understands science or tech but can't conjugate latin verbs stands no chance.

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Re:Dongle dilemma provokes Apple price cut by KnightEternal on Saturday November 05, 2016 @03:49PM (#12881536)

You can't, but you can have iTunes backup your iPhone wirelessly.

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