Fellow tech journos may laugh at me when I whip it out, but I’m holding onto my iPhone SE for dear life. Not only is the legacy device the last iPhone produced at a reasonable size, but it keeps the enduring and democratic piece of technology called a headphone jack. To this day I maintain that removing the universal port, leaving only the proprietary Lightning port, is the most aggressively anti-consumer thing Apple has done with its flagship product. But now a new report on 9To5Mac threatens us with a future Apple innovation even more “courageously” awful.
According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is of course already planning entire new slates of OLED iPhones to release throughout the next few years. Initially, we can expect devices with iPhone 4-esque designs across a variety of screen sizes including 5.4-inch, 6.1-inch, 6.7-inch, and a new 4.7-inch iPhone SE 2 which I guess will have to do.
That new iPhone SE better be worth it though because if Kuo’s predictions for the 2021 iPhones come to pass I may actually swear off of this company. Taking the idea of “closed system” to a new level, the 2021 iPhone would have no ports whatsoever. So no headphone jack, no Lightning port, no USB-C port. Nothing. An entirely wireless iPhone.
While that may sound like a wonderful aesthetic object, it already sounds like a practical nightmare. Countless peripherals will be rendered totally obsolete. Pricey, easy to lose wireless AirPods will be our only option. And in a world where even Apple can’t make a next-gen wireless charging pad, do you really want that to be the only way your phone gets charged? Do you really want all Android phones to chase this trend the way they did with that stupid notch?
We’re still years away from knowing for sure whether or not Apple will try to pull this off. But don’t put it past them. For future mobile tech to actually get excited for, here’s the latest on 5G.
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