At first, many people were very skeptical about this technology. On the one hand, they are worried about its safety, on the other hand, they are afraid that it will shorten the life of mobile phone batteries. After a period of development, everyone safely accepted its existence and even became the industry standard.
It is puzzling that although super fast charging has become the standard in the domestic mobile phone market, almost all new mobile devices are using this technology, but only Apple, the industry leader, has not adopted it. So, what caused Apple not to use this technology? The following author will analyze it with you.
Patent problem
As we all know, in the mobile phone industry, almost every company has a large number of patented technologies, and when other manufacturers need to use other patented technologies, they have to pay patent fees, which are calculated according to the shipment of equipment, that is, how much each mobile phone has to pay, and Apple's annual shipment is quite amazing, so it is not a small cost compared with patent fees, and the most important thing is to pay Huawei.
Worried that the technology is not yet mature.
Apple is famous for its rigorous products in the industry, and super fast charging is not an ordinary technology. Not only upgrade the power adapter, but also support related technologies in the equipment, constantly monitor the input voltage of the equipment and make adjustments at any time. Therefore, if it is not guaranteed in this process, it is easy to consume batteries and even cause accidents.
I believe that everyone still remembers the Samsung note7 battery explosion. In retrospect, it was because of the battery that Samsung's reputation declined and its global market share dropped a lot. It is also for this reason that several domestic mobile phone manufacturers have been made. Therefore, Apple has to be careful, either completely relieved that they will not use super fast charge, or they are afraid to be the same as Samsung.
Problems with the charging interface
As we all know, Apple's mobile devices have been using its unique Lightning interface instead of the mainstream Type C interface in the Android market today. The biggest advantage of this interface is that Apple can firmly hold the market of peripheral accessories in its own hands. Even the accessories made by third parties still need Apple-certified chips, which means they still need to be paid. However, the shortcoming of Lightning interface is also obvious, that is, the maximum power it actually supports is only 20W, which can't reach the threshold of super fast charging.
In this way, if Apple wants to use this technology again, it must abandon the current Lightning interface and use Type C instead. In fact, as early as 20 15, Apple has collectively replaced its mac book and ipad pro with Type C interfaces, because they also know that the past Lightning interface will gradually fail to meet the needs of large-capacity batteries. As for why the iphone has not been changed, it is because the battery capacity of the iphone is much smaller than that of tablets and notebooks, and it is really difficult to give up that huge benefit.
Layout for your own wireless charger aerodynamic.
Cook once said that the future direction of mobile phones is to cancel all physical buttons and openings, and truly achieve the state of no openings and no buttons. In other words, the future mobile phone will not only have no earphone hole, no charging hole, no speaker hole, no volume button, no screen lock button and no mute button. At present, the screen sound technology is relatively mature, and many curved screens have cancelled the volume button, making it possible to achieve no opening and no buttons. How to charge a mobile phone without a charging interface? Of course, you need to use wireless charging equipment, and Apple also launched its own aerodynamic equipment early in the morning.
I don't know if you still remember, when Apple introduced the iphone7, Cook claimed that in order to make the phone more waterproof, he canceled the headphone jack and introduced the first generation wireless headset air pods instead. Probably Cook didn't think at that time that the sales of this small wireless headset would grow so fast in a few years. In the third quarter of this year alone, Apple shipped 29.5 million wearable devices, most of which were air pods and air pods2. So apple also tasted the sweetness, and then did not rush to use super fast charging technology.
The author believes that in the near future, Apple will announce that it will completely cancel the charging socket of the iphone, and only use aerodynamic power to charge the device. Of course, this cost has to be passed on to consumers again. I wonder if you will continue to buy apples then?