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Isn't wireless charging only about 75% efficient at best? If Apple decides that everyone is going to use wireless charging all the time even when a cable would suffice, that's a lot of power to throw away for no good reason.

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You're talking about single watts. How much power does your household use (electricity and other)? Does your household use little enough that 30% extra for the phone is "a lot"? Do you have a car, what model, how many cm can you drive it on the same amount of as 30% of one phone charge?

Please focus on what matters.

At a household or personal level, phones just don’t use much energy. But then again, Apple does sell a lot of phones.

I wouldn’t really be concerned though. Even if phones did use twice the energy as before, it would still be under a dollar of power for the whole year.

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