I don't see Apple ever moving to a cable less iPhone (at least on all models). Wireless charging is no where near efficient enough to charge todays larger phone battery packs with anything resembling decent speed. In a car I doubt my phone would charge at all with the increased heat from sun and heat from inductive charging - heck the phone might shut down; it sometimes does on hot summer days already if I'm not really careful with positioning it.

I do admit that the majority of time I rarely plug it in, but when I do in order to get it topped off as much as I can as quickly as I can, it's really useful. External battery packs? Also very impractical and way more cumbersome.

It's a persistent rumor but I just don't see it.

I use a wireless charger/mount in the car, but it mounts in front of the aircon vent, so it charges perfectly.

I don't see this happening. Wireless charging is slower and is awkward if you want to use the phone while it's charging. With something like the Apple Watch it doesn't matter since it's unlikely you would even want to have it on your wrist while connected to the wall.

I get that people also thought removing the headphone jack was crazy too, but Bluetooth audio is as good as wired for the majority of people. In many cases it's even nicer than having a wire going from your device to your head (something that I hated about listening to music on the go for decades). Plus it didn't fully disappear. You can still do wired audio with a dongle.

There will be zero port, but doesn't mean it is without cabling. I think Apple will support something like the iPad Smart Connector on iPhone. Where cable could be used when needed. But the whole iPhone is essentially sealed.

Can that support high-speed data? On iPad, it's been limited so far to keyboard and charging.

Definitely not High Speed Data. Any Data Transfer will likely go through Wireless.

The Wireless iPhone Data Migration was a step towards that goal.

WiFi and Bluetooth basebands are regularly compromised by attackers, through no fault of Apple. There are use cases for offline pocket computers, which never use WiFi/BT, have wired headphones and intermittently sync data via wired ethernet. Would love a kill switch for all radios & microphones & cameras, plus the return of touch ID.

Google Project Ara used UniPro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniPro ) as an interconnect for modular components.

> Hopefully the market rejects zero-port iPhones and Apple finally provides local USB-C for sync, audio, wired ethernet, keyboard, external displays, etc.

Highly unlikely. I'm not an Apple fan but they'll probably have a slick solution at about $60-$140 and people will just buy that instead. It's going to be a classic upsell move ("would you like $60 worth of shoe miscellany together with your $80 shoes?") and people will just see the nice ads, the nice design, but it and move on :-)