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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by jedberg on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:52PM (#22070767)
My car has an option for a built in Qi charger. It’s in the spot you normally put your phone anyway.

That being said, how would you service a portless phone? There would be no more DFU mode.

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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by danaris on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:50PM (#22071421)
And how would you activate CarPlay? At the moment it's wired-only, and I'm skeptical as to whether it could be made to work over Bluetooth in existing cars. If you bought a new car today with wired CarPlay, you might still be driving it in 5 or even 10 years, and you really wouldn't want to lose the ability to actually use CarPlay in just a year or two.
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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by BuckRogers on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:20PM (#22071564)
There’s wireless Carplay today.
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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by danaris on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:32PM (#22071617)
Really? Neat, I hadn't heard about that. I will have to look it up. I wonder if my car supports it.
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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by jedberg on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:12PM (#22071786)
I think only BMWs support it right now.
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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by danaris on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:22AM (#22075983)
Well, that lets me out, for sure. Ah, well.
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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by mcgoo on Thursday January 16, 2020 @08:20PM (#22070952)
It seems like it’s essential right now at least. The Apple Watch has a hidden lightning port that I have never even seen.
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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by jedberg on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:21PM (#22071282)
You’ve never seen it because it doesn’t exist. :)

It was an unsubstantiated rumor.

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Re:Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cable by ta999999171 on Saturday January 18, 2020 @02:29AM (#22082969)
Really poorly secured wireless interfaces that can be hijacked by 3LAs.
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