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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by Scoundreller on Sunday October 04, 2020 @03:48PM (#24681761)
> Magsafe was introduced in 2006 and the last products with it were replaced in 2017

There were 2 physically incompatible magsafes.

Magsafe 2 was made more slender because Apple somehow couldn't imagine that they'd be making an even thinner laptop in the future.

And then the fact that the cable was hard-wired into the wall wart...

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Re:Apple sues Canadian recycling firm for reselling 100k dev... by wwright on Sunday October 04, 2020 @10:03PM (#24683907)
Fair point! MagSafe 2 was introduced in 2012. 6 years after MagSafe 1, and 5 years before USB-C. 6 years is double the median lifetime of a laptop in that period IIRC and MagSafe 2 was ditched for a charger that is included on many other devices, so it doesn’t really cause the same churn.
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