No more Lightning?

Jun 22, 2018

MacRumors' Joe Rossignol adds details to a story by Mark Gurman on Bloomberg:

Just to be absolutely clear, Gurman confirmed to me that this would have included removing the Lightning connector from the device. In fact, his report notes that Apple designers eventually hope to "remove most of the external ports and buttons on the iPhone," although this is likely multiple years away.

A few years ago, it was reported that Apple's design chief Jony Ive's end goal is for the iPhone to resemble a "single sheet of glass," while Apple has repeatedly expressed its ambitions to "create a wireless future," so the eventual removal of the Lightning connector should perhaps come as no surprise.

It should indeed come as no surprise, and the whole idea of being able to fit all of that electronic in a slab of glass is truly fascinating.
Imagining all physical ports will be removed, I wonder how legitimately accessing the device for diagnosis or hard recover will be possible in a scenario where, for example, the iPhone is stuck in recovery mode because something went wrong with a system update or whatever reason.

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