Apple is allegedly preparing to remove USB-C ports from iPhones

Will phones really be completely without wired ports? It's possible but unlikely any time soon. Wired ports are still important for development/debugging and crash recovery purposes, local data sync with a PC, as well as backup and restore.

We'd probably need some kind of high speed short-range wireless connectivity that could replace a USB/lightning port for those purposes, but I think a wired connection will always have a place on phones in general.