India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging for smart devices

Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by qwerty456127 on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:00AM (#33653954)

I am afraid Apple is more likely to remove wired charging altogether than to introduce USB in iPhone, this may be enough to game the law which explicitly says only "devices which support wired charging" have to comply. I just hope the EU lawyers will notice "wireless" MagSafe only replaces the connection interface (which should be USB-C) while still using a wire.

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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by kmlx on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:04AM (#33653997)

what exactly is the problem with wireless charging?

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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by old_hat on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:09AM (#33654041)

On average it takes about double the power to charge the device. Coils aren't always properly aligned, and it's not as efficient in the first place.

If we adopt this tech en masse, we'll need to build some more power plants.

https://debugger.medium.com/wireless-charging-is-a-disaster-...

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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by kmlx on Thursday November 24, 2022 @07:20AM (#33730505)

interesting, thank you.

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Re:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging fo... by anony999 on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:52AM (#33654648)

If only AirPower wouldn't have been a such failure.

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