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I'm not ready to cut the cord for a portless iPhone 17 Air yet (phonearena.com)
2 points by walterbell 3 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



As noted, wireless charging is slower. So you definitely have to be a human with sleep time to succeed with this one, or dock it.

You also are more implicitly behind a s/w lock because all "mounts" of some file system are now mediated through a network stack and an OS stack and a permissions model with mostly unknown 3rd parties to access media. Sure, its not like you didn't have local software stack issues mounting an insert into the USB port but its less actors in the path, and there's always the potential its a generic USB and you can attach HID, video, you-name-it.

This is very much "permissioned" in and out of device, compared to plugging things in. The lockdown and snoop and logging is complete now.


Hopefully portless will be limited to foldable phone/tablet/laptops, https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/18/foldable-iphone-rumors-...

Google Pixel is offering desktop Linux VM and USB-c docking to monitor/keyboard/mouse/power.




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