Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
by croddin on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:12PM
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I think there is a good chance MagSafe chargers will last significantly longer. Lightning cables seem to eventually get damaged on the connector or with the cable bending if it is being used while charging. If wireless MagSafe uses more electricity it will be worth it if offsets enough need to replace broken cables and the energy used in producing those.
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Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
by sudosysgen on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @11:06PM
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A single wireless charger requires multiple times more resources than a single cable. A fairer comparison would be against, say, ten cables.
Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
by imtringued on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:00AM
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Because of a certain someone I lost more than 10 cables.
Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
by PeterStuer on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @05:43AM
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They get damaged by design. The weakness is there on purpose.
Don't know why you are getting downvoted. Apple cables have a particular way of fraying, one that most other electronics cables don't suffer from.
Re:A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
by PeterStuer on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:07AM
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And every cable engineer knows the solution, a cable-end guard that distributes the sheering force gradually over the final stretch of the cable.
It's not just Apple that is turning something that would be durable into a consumable for profit. At work for decades Dell notebook power-supplies would fail in the exact same manner, cable fraying at the hard edge with the connector plug. It was such a predictable issue Dell at one point even offered a power supply renewal option together with their battery replacement subscription.