Adam Kos To say that Apple is not an accessory maker is rather odd. With the growing popularity of iPhones, he also started offering appropriate cases for them, has a wide portfolio of straps for the Apple Watch, and basically founded the TWS segment, i.e. fully wireless headphones, which in themselves are also accessories for his products. But why don't they finally create their own wireless charger?
Yes, we have the Dual MagSafe Charger, we have the MagSafe Charger, i.e. the cable ending in a magnetic puck, and the MagSafe Battery, but neither of these solutions is a sleek wireless charger that you'll want to keep on your desk or bedside table like the competition can do.
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Vratislav Holub The closest thing to this is, of course, the Dual MagSafe charger. You can charge a compatible iPhone, Apple Watch, Wireless charging case for AirPods and other Qi-certified devices with it. But her main problem is that she is not pretty. Its purpose is aimed more at trips, when it is relatively compact and is enough for you to charge two devices at the same time, when one can always only be the Apple Watch. You connect the classic Lightning to it, while Apple states that by connecting a 27W or more powerful USB-C power adapter with support for 9 V / 3 A, you will get faster wireless charging with a power consumption of up to 14 W. MagSafe will release 15 W at the same time.
Dual MagSafe charger
Why invent something we already have here
The idea called AirPower was nice, but it didn't come to fruition for many technical reasons. Instead of it, we have such an ugly and overpriced accessory, which is certainly not a sales blockbuster (Double MagSafe charger costs CZK 3). But if Apple relaxed its sometimes unnecessary standards and practically only brought elegant AirPower with clearly defined charging points, would it be a problem?
AirPower
Personally, I use a stand on my desk that offers MagSafe charging for the iPhone, and the base can be used to charge AirPods or other TWS headphones that have wireless charging. The stand is sleek and practical because I can see the iPhone screen right next to the Mac's external display. So the phone is not lying anywhere and I don't even have to lean over it if I want to unlock it via FaceID. It wouldn't be a problem for Apple to do something like that.
MagSafe Battery
But for someone, meaning Apple, it is much easier not to waste their resources, meaning their employees, on something that has already been invented. It was different with AirPower, because there was nothing like it before. We now have so many MagSafe solutions that Apple would rather sell the MFi license to collect "tithes" than to lock up employees to develop something like a "regular" charger. With the MagSafe Duo, it was probably worth it, as with the battery, which, after all, was also based on the past, when it offered cases for iPhones with an integrated battery.
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Jiří Filip A glimmer of hope?
Although it is very unlikely that Apple will come with the second generation of mobile MagSafe in iPhone 14, it is not for nothing that they say that hope dies last. Once he decides that his technology can handle more power, and once he allows MagSafe to jump to maybe 20 or even 50 W, he will probably want to profit from this with the appropriate accessories, which at that time will not yet be on the market from other manufacturers.
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So maybe we will see it someday, although not this year and probably not in a year, maybe with the necessary termination of the Lightning connector. A lot will depend on the shift in the technology of the batteries themselves, for which it seems that Apple has hit their ceiling, because the charging speeds are not increasing at all, and a powerful adapter is not the only thing that is needed for faster charging. Fully charging the iPhone 13 Pro Max is really a long shot.
No reason, everyone already uses FIXED Powerstation or something like that anyway.
Because they are incompetent morons.
Probably like you matela
I have been using a wireless charger originally intended for Nokias for several years to charge my iPhone wirelessly. It is called “FATBOY”.
I originally got it for a Nokia Lumia 1020, then I used it on a Microsoft Lumia 950 XL, a few years later I tried it on an iPhone Xr, and today I'm using it on an iPhone 11.
Well, guess what, someone invented a wireless charger for a Nokia in 2013 and I'm still using it daily on an iPhone 11 in 2022.
That's great!