Gurman: Apple wanted iPhone 17 Air to be a port-free device

17 March 2025
It is coming with USB-C but will foreshadow a move to slimmer models without charging ports.

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  • 17 Mar 2025

I'm holding onto the hope that EU regulations somehow stop this strive towards portless devices. Not only is USB-C charging important, so is hardware access for file transfer and other things such as extra storage, etc. Taking away features is, to me, never innovation but simply removing options from consumers.

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      Apple selling less phone for more money, as per usual. Literally the worst company around when it comes to catering for its customers

        It's coming...

          If apple made a portless phone they wouldn't put a magsafe charger in the box and make the box as thin as possible. It's just a useless gimmick

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            • 17 Mar 2025

            Vasra, 17 Mar 2025LOL, without EU, Apple would have no competition for it... moreLooks like someone has no idea what Communism is...

              Anonymous, 17 Mar 2025Port less, but not hole less. Speaker and mic still need a ... moreDon't forget about a hole in the screen

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                • 17 Mar 2025

                Vasra, 17 Mar 2025LOL, without EU, Apple would have no competition for it... moreAm not a leftist but you should understand that uncontrolled capitalism only degenerates into some from of cronyism like we are seeing here im India with Adani and Ambani. Ots always the consumers who are the end losers.

                  Lithium-ion battery and heat is a no-go area,coming to add wireless charging which generates heat just like wired ?

                  Portless phone would really be great for battery longevity *smirks*

                    LOL, without EU, Apple would have no competition for it's chargers, app store, browser or soon anything that you attach to your iPhone.

                    For once the communists at EU did something right.

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                      • 17 Mar 2025

                      RealLifePhones, 17 Mar 2025FAKE NEWS & PROPAGÄNDA! US iPhoness have no physical S... moreSorry, but ROW is NOT the US and still needs ports. Don't want to see port less or sim less phones for now. If you US kiddos wants to pay more for less, go, but ROW still want to keep features

                        a lot of us saw this coming, apple ditching the charging port.

                          FAKE NEWS & PROPAGÄNDA!
                          US iPhoness have no physical SIM card slot while ROW has it so if Apple wants a portless iPhone they could've made an EU version with USB-C while ROW would get a portless version. This is just defamation of the EU because they force them to be pro-consumer for once

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                            • 17 Mar 2025

                            What about data transfer? Wireless energy transfer isn't efficient or fast. Next it will be capacitive touch volume and power controls and no more buttons or holes period.

                              Apple just trying to squeeze more money out of its gullible users.... I didn't think they could hit a much more low point than just removing the charger but now they wanna create a dependency on a way less efficient wireless charging because those chargers are always sold at a good enough profit margin?

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                                • 17 Mar 2025

                                Wireless for charging only is fine. But for data transfer? no thanks.

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                                  • 17 Mar 2025

                                  Nothing surprising here, magsafe was their first step.

                                  Worst part is how other companies will monkey this without fixing the issues caused around it.

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                                    • 17 Mar 2025

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                                    1) S25 Edge to be at least €1200 for 256GB and probably 1400 for 512GB
                                    2) latest news says this iphone is $899
                                    3) mi 16 may be 6.5" screen

                                      Minu, 17 Mar 2025And more unoriginality with that camera island, lol. It literally says speculative render. It probably won’t look like that

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                                        • 17 Mar 2025

                                        I’m so glad the EU forced Apple to keep the charging port after passing the USB-C requirement back then. I still remember the old rumors (from way back when the EU USB-C requirement was announced) about Apple making port-less iPhones because they REALLY didn’t want to use another kind of charging cable.

                                        Apple was pretty pissy about ditching MFi lightning cables they made money off of via royalties, and still are to this day. MFi was very predatory.

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