Casey Liss

I like to see Apple continuing this long march towards essentially making the phone more of an independent entity. Obviously, we all have Macs, and we assume everyone, if they don't have a Mac, that they have a PC, but that's just not true, right?

And anything that you do with an iOS device, like if you've ever tried to help someone, and you say, oh, just connect it to your Mac or PC, and they're like, what? why would I need a Mac or PC? I just have my phone. And you realize, oh, not everyone in the world has a Mac or PC or wants a Mac or PC. And any part of the phone process that requires a Mac or PC is like broken.

And anything that you do with an iOS device, like if you've ever tried to help someone, and you say, oh, just connect it to your Mac or PC, and they're like, what? why would I need a Mac or PC? I just have my phone. And you realize, oh, not everyone in the world has a Mac or PC or wants a Mac or PC. And any part of the phone process that requires a Mac or PC is like broken.

And so Apple doing this by saying, okay, well, maybe you don't have a Mac or PC, but maybe you have an old phone. Obviously, if you're in a situation where your thing is hosed and you need something else to help you recover from it, you do have to have something else. But allowing that something else to be a phone, I think is great.

And so Apple doing this by saying, okay, well, maybe you don't have a Mac or PC, but maybe you have an old phone. Obviously, if you're in a situation where your thing is hosed and you need something else to help you recover from it, you do have to have something else. But allowing that something else to be a phone, I think is great.

And it makes me wonder what the heck they're waiting for on the watch. which is still completely dependent on the phone. I mean, obviously there's a synergy there where they want you to buy a phone and a watch, but they want you to buy a Mac too. But I feel like the phone is overdue for a little bit, you know, take off some of the train wheels, let it be a little bit more independent.

And it makes me wonder what the heck they're waiting for on the watch. which is still completely dependent on the phone. I mean, obviously there's a synergy there where they want you to buy a phone and a watch, but they want you to buy a Mac too. But I feel like the phone is overdue for a little bit, you know, take off some of the train wheels, let it be a little bit more independent.

Hey, it's got its own phone number. It can make phone calls, but it's still so tied to its parent phone. And I think they should edge that along. But it's nice to see the phone continuing to assert its independence.

Hey, it's got its own phone number. It can make phone calls, but it's still so tied to its parent phone. And I think they should edge that along. But it's nice to see the phone continuing to assert its independence.

Yeah, maybe. Apple doesn't seem to be in a hurry, and I don't think users are in a hurry either. I feel like it's kind of one of those things, kind of like USB-C, that when Apple finally decides to do it, it will be after the point when it's... They'll let it be non-controversial, right?

Yeah, maybe. Apple doesn't seem to be in a hurry, and I don't think users are in a hurry either. I feel like it's kind of one of those things, kind of like USB-C, that when Apple finally decides to do it, it will be after the point when it's... They'll let it be non-controversial, right?

If it did it today, it would be controversial, but there's going to come a point where few people will care about it, and they'll just do it. As someone who continues to charge with the wire pretty much all the time except when I'm in the car on the MagSafe mount, I still could give it a few more years before they go full wireless.

If it did it today, it would be controversial, but there's going to come a point where few people will care about it, and they'll just do it. As someone who continues to charge with the wire pretty much all the time except when I'm in the car on the MagSafe mount, I still could give it a few more years before they go full wireless.

I do wonder how many people, what the percentages are. Only Apple knows, but how much... Wireless charging used to be 0% because the phone didn't support it. Right now, what percent of phone charging in terms of like... I don't know, battery capacity or milliamp hours added to the phone. Is that?

I do wonder how many people, what the percentages are. Only Apple knows, but how much... Wireless charging used to be 0% because the phone didn't support it. Right now, what percent of phone charging in terms of like... I don't know, battery capacity or milliamp hours added to the phone. Is that?

And then you do the math on the massive inefficiency of wireless charging versus wired and see how much waste heat we're throwing out and how much energy that adds. Yeah, that could be another thing keeping Apple from doing this for a while.

And then you do the math on the massive inefficiency of wireless charging versus wired and see how much waste heat we're throwing out and how much energy that adds. Yeah, that could be another thing keeping Apple from doing this for a while.

Yeah, it's a good pop culture thing to watch. Like, in pop culture, you will very often see people complaining in modern TV shows and movies that their phone is out of charge and they're desperate to find a charger and they're always plugging a wire into it, right? Yeah. We'll know that that turnover has happened when in pop culture we see the person who's desperate for their phone to be charged.

Yeah, it's a good pop culture thing to watch. Like, in pop culture, you will very often see people complaining in modern TV shows and movies that their phone is out of charge and they're desperate to find a charger and they're always plugging a wire into it, right? Yeah. We'll know that that turnover has happened when in pop culture we see the person who's desperate for their phone to be charged.

I don't know, sticking it to a MagSafe puck? I'm not even sure how they would do it. But yeah, obviously that's a trailing indicator, not a leading indicator. But yeah, wires are still pretty prevalent in popular media.