Consider the following Gedankenexperiment.
You turn on your Chromebook (or phone or iPad), things whirr and glurg for a few minutes, and the computer throws up this message:
Error. Failure to install..
It's now been a full year since Apple announced it would release its first wireless charger to go along with the first iPhones that could be wirelessly charged.
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