Comment: This is why Apple was right to hold back on wireless charging for the iPhone<div class="feat-image">
</div>It was yesterday suggested that Apple may be <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/15/iphone-wireless-charging-apple-energous/" target="_blank">partnering with Energous[/url], developer of a wireless charging technology known as WattUp. The company later issued a statement downplaying the evidence for the partnership, but – notably – without actually denying it.</p>
<p>Either way, it seems pretty clear by now that Apple is indeed waiting for either this or <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2016/01/28/wireless-charging-apple-iphone/" target="_blank">some similar[/url] long-distance wireless charging tech, and it is absolutely right to do so.</p>
<p>When I <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2015/11/06/android-lessons-for-iphone-7/" target="_blank">wrote a wish-list[/url] for the iPhone 7 back in November of last year, there were five items on it. Apple delivered three of them. But a number of you wondered why wireless charging wasn’t on my list, and I wrote a <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/15/iphone-wireless-charging-apple-energous/" target="_blank">follow-up piece[/url] explaining my reasoning. The tl;dr version is that Apple should hold fire until wireless charging can be done properly – and I pointed directly to the WattUp tech developed by Energous <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2015/01/06/true-wireless-power/" target="_blank">as an example[/url] of how to do it right …</p>
<p> <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/16/energous-wattapp-apple-wireless-charging/#more-446631" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
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