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Anon notices what they've taken from us (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Three years ago I predicted Apple would remove wifi from phones and call it a feature.

So far, I was wrong. Thank fuck.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

That would never work out for them, cellular uses way more battery

[–] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Android got rid of NFC and Beam

[–] d2k1@feddit.de 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

NFC isn't going anywhere, what are you on about?

[–] unrelatedkeg@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] d2k1@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

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.