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[jedberg]

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.

[danaris → jedberg]

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.

[BuckRogers → danaris]

There’s wireless Carplay today.

[danaris → BuckRogers]

Really? Neat, I hadn't heard about that. I will have to look it up. I wonder if my car supports it.

[jedberg → danaris]

I think only BMWs support it right now.

[danaris → jedberg]

Well, that lets me out, for sure. Ah, well.

[mcgoo → jedberg]

It seems like it’s essential right now at least. The Apple Watch has a hidden lightning port that I have never even seen.

[jedberg → mcgoo]

You’ve never seen it because it doesn’t exist. :)

It was an unsubstantiated rumor.

[ta999999171 → jedberg]

Really poorly secured wireless interfaces that can be hijacked by 3LAs.