I am guessing this had something to do with Steve Jobs no longer being there. More freedom for choosing technologies.
Like I said, that's all speculation. From what I can tell based on the shade of gray of your comment, you received at most a couple of down votes. It's really hard to distinguish between something meaningful and noise here, particularly in a hot-topic thread like this one. At the end of the day, I think I'd just make a small mental note but otherwise just chalk it up as collateral damage in a heated thread.
This is the first time Apple have given in to OLED displays and wireless charging (and a standardised one even) - both relatively old technologies [1] which were at their disposal during Steve's time.
From what I've seen the corporate secrecy at Apple will make such conclusive investigation next to impossible. What I often think of is NeXT and Steve's return that saved Apple in the 1990s.
[1] http://www.gsmarena.com/qualcomm_taunts_apple_list_android_f...
> Like I said, that's all speculation.
Grr. Scratch that "Like I said". The second sentence is meant to be that my take on the down votes is speculation. The editor regrets the error.