What the Heck Is Happening at Apple?

Re:What the Heck Is Happening at Apple? by pilif on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:22AM (#12837561)

> What else would you be plugging into a macbook? Particularly in a setting like a coffee shop which is probably where the highest risk of someone tripping over the power cable is.

an iPhone, an Android Device (if I'm doing development) and headphones (especially in a coffee shop)

>This is true. Though if Apple were going to give up on Magsafe as a competitive advantage I wish they would've just licensed the patents and allowed USB-C to use the same tech

The moment you have a data connection, accidental disconnects (like they happen with magsafe all the time) become very annoying and possibly lead to data corruption and/or kernel panics (in the thunderbolt case when you have, say, an external GPU connected to that cable)

Try yanking a USB-stick while it's copying data.

If you really, really want to use one of your ports for power only, use one of the various third-party magnetic USB-C adapters (like https://griffintechnology.com/us/breaksafe-magnetic-usb-c-po... - first hit on Google)

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Re:What the Heck Is Happening at Apple? by mcintyre1994 on Monday October 31, 2016 @12:16PM (#12838210)

> an iPhone, an Android Device (if I'm doing development) and headphones (especially in a coffee shop)

With the wire trailing so you can trip over it? I always thought Magsafe was smart because it recognises that while I might have other stuff plugged in, that stuff and its wire is on the desk where power can't be.

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