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Three years ago I predicted Apple would remove wifi from phones and call it a feature.
So far, I was wrong. Thank fuck.
They seem to be all about wireless though. Things like the charging port, sim tray (do the latest still use physical sims at all?), and any remaining mechanical buttons seem like obvious candidates.
They still would be - but 5G only, with no use for local networks. "No more wifi passwords," they'd say. Like it's a convenience.
Your “no more wifi passwords” example just felt too real. I still don’t see WiFi going away on their devices, but I could totally imagine a new proprietary network layer that lets you jump between random access points securely with no password, as long as you’re signed into iCloud.
That would never work out for them, cellular uses way more battery
Android got rid of NFC and Beam
NFC isn't going anywhere, what are you on about?
I mean Google Pay works, and that's about it. I used to be able to read RFIDs and emulate my train pass, but it just "doesn't recognize" it.
Beam was a mixture of NFC and Bluetooth/WiFi direct if I recall correctly. So while it isn't going anywhere, a lot of functionality was lost.
I see. Never used NFC for much other than mobile pay, pairing Bluetooth devices and occasionally reading NFC tags for specific tasks. RFID or NFC train passes aren't a thing where I live and I don't think I ever used Beam or something like it with NFC (nowadays there is Nearby Share which is just Bluetooth, I think). So I was confused why you would say Android removed NFC, because for me it works just like it has from the beginning.