@daringfireball if they’re going futuristic and expensive again, and I don’t think they’ll stop supporting Qi. How about a ceramic back, or a circular ceramic/glass window for charging (like the watch?), titanium for the rest of it?
Remove the port entirely, it’s already on the limit of thickness for the iPad.

@Agsystems The port is used for pro camera features. They’d need Thunderbolt-speed data transfer of some sort.