If it’s easy to patch this out, I wonder if there will be manufacturers that will choose to do so for their official ROMs. It would be extra value for the brand, imho. A reason to choose, say, Samsung, over a Pixel phone, if Samsung were to patch this restriction out, for example. After all, they also have the Galaxy Store which is also offering apps that I doubt they’ll want Google to regulate.

Technically, even an optical port can deliver power. Light is just a particular form of electromagnetic wave that just happens to use another method of transmission (and you might need a different mechanism to transform its energy), but it also has an intensity, potential energy and resistance in the medium of propagation.

ATP (and any molecule, really) is just a particular configuration of electrical particles that use electromagnetism to hold together some mass.

Much of the water you and me drink, used to be pee and fecal sludge.

It might have been horse-drawn in the 1890s with color paint, and years later photographed with a modern camera.