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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by kalleboo on Thursday November 26, 2015 @01:28AM (#10631594)
Third party chargers are aggressively pursued with the MagSafe patent. One company made external Mac batteries by buying up Apple MagSafe chargers and chopping off the cable and STILL got destroyed by Apple's lawyers for "violating" the patent.
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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by radoslawc on Thursday November 26, 2015 @05:38AM (#10632352)
Haven't heard about it, thanks. Reminds me absurd lawsuit about Mike Rowe Soft domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_vs._MikeRoweSoft same amount of crazy.
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