What was your WORST prediction of 2020?

[jodiefunnee]

2020 was an unusual year.

What were your worst predictions. Be honest!

[professor]

2020 was going to be the year of Graphene Batteries and we would recharge phones in a fraction of the time.

18 mins to recharge a 5k powerbank?

Buy a USB meter. The scenarios where paying $$$ for a portable charger is fairly niche, to the degree I think many reading this don’t need to pay it. A laptop charger needs to: run the screen run the cpu, other parts recharge its internal battery So a laptop’s quoted power needs are usually the sum of these, so say 45W laptop charger can recharge the laptop when the laptop is being continually used, it may well spend many times needing a lot less. You’ll never know until you buy a USB meter…

[ikari04warrior]

My prediction was that Samsung would bring back the headphones jack after seeing the negative reaction to it being gone

[ktkundy]

Yeah at the start of 2020 I would agree that graphene sounded like it was going to take off

[professor]

End of the Apple Lightning socket as USB-C would inevitably win?

Let me find my own post to prove myself the worst…

[New Release] iPhone LED Flash is Now Available!

There’s a notion going around Apple may go fully wireless next, so no audio, no USB, no Lightning. Just wireless charging, bluetooth. It makes waterproofing easier and if you got wireless anyway, removing the wired port saves space/money. That is a repeat of the argument that as you bluetooth already then why bother keeping the audio port, extended into the Power argument. It would harm portable chargers who have to be bulkier themselves for the same effect, adding the wireless tech and needing…

[Mike246810]

1 month left it’s time for the boss battle😂

[Mike246810]

Maybe this next decade will be like 2020

[Shivam_Shah]

That and better wireless charging speeds. Also a faster power adapter in the box (which they completely deleted )

[jercox]

Never bet against Apple doing their own thing for their own inscrutable reasons.

Google has issues too, in other areas. I hate that there isn’t a good mobile phone option that doesn’t include one of their two sets of hooks.

[professor]

There is open source.

https://source.android.com/

It suffers from bad DRM so things like contactless payment, NetFlix, tend to not work.

I know Huawei has been creating a non-Google ecosystem , app store.

[Element321]

This was mine prediction.

My wife has been wanting to upgrade her iPhone for about a year now and she usually keeps her phone until the phone is no longer updated. When I heard the rumors that Apple might do away with the lightning port I thought this would be the year since other devices from Apple were starting to move away from lightning. Now it looks like she will end up with a 12 since she can’t go much longer with her phone.

[ktkundy]

agreed i thought this would be there year where iPhone people would move to USB c and people wouldn’t have to worry about if people had an android or iPhone to borrow cables.

[jercox]

It becomes a challenge to get good, affordably priced hardware to go with it. And then lots of other things around the edges that become harder if you are avoiding Google. But yes, there are options if you have adequate time and energy to work through them.