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Qi2 is a great short-term fix that will stifle innovation
Standards are great until they aren't.
A company like HMD may not be ready to dedicate the time and money to a five-person team to develop a better way to align a wireless charger, but Apple, Samsung, or OnePlus will. If OnePlus — a company known for pushing the limits when it comes to charging tech — does develop a new and better way, it would need to build a device that works poorly (if at all) with existing equipment you probably already have. Ideally, Qi2 would be the latest wireless transfer standard and something like QiM could handle things like clearance and placements of magnetic points of attachment.
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