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Apple Headset to Use 'New Proprietary Charging Connector' for External Battery
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Wait. So if the battery cable is accidentally disconnected, the whole headset turns off? We've already had our doubts about the headset for ages, but this could actually be a laughing stock product.
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So this product finally realized...
...but instead of $1.98, it's apparently a bit more than that... presumably due to "inflation", "supply chain', "covid" and the other, usual excuses?
New day, new rumor, new people getting agitated over rumors.
Just like with the MBPs, I’m sure you’d can charge over USB-C in addition to it’s MagSafe.
Apple had hot-swappable batteries way back on the PowerBook G3s, I’m sure to will be fine here. They could easily put a small battery in the thing which holds the battery, which is large enough for a couple of minutes standby power.
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Exactly what I was thinking of - or the one where someone looks at their arm and sees all the bones!So this product finally realized...
...but instead of $1.98, it's apparently a bit more than that... presumably due to "inflation", "supply chain', "covid" and the other, usual excuses?
This is such a fascinating product.
We tend to forget this DOES NOT EXIST right now - Apple havent announced its existence at all. However there are articles after articles discussing various aspects of it in great detail.
So, lets assume its real.
As much as I love the Apple ecosystem I just cant see this appealing to any sort of mass market. The price is going to be eye watering - when isnt it when Apple is involved... and things like belt-worn batteries connected by a cable regardless of whether its MagSafe or not just seem ridiculous. Surely with magsafe charging it's not outside the realms of possibility to integrate a hot swappable removable battery pack on the device itself without compromising on size and weight too much.
However, I imagine that Apple's marketing department will work their usual magic and if and when this is finally announced im sure the presentation is going to make everyone feel they want one.
We tend to forget this DOES NOT EXIST right now - Apple havent announced its existence at all. However there are articles after articles discussing various aspects of it in great detail.
So, lets assume its real.
As much as I love the Apple ecosystem I just cant see this appealing to any sort of mass market. The price is going to be eye watering - when isnt it when Apple is involved... and things like belt-worn batteries connected by a cable regardless of whether its MagSafe or not just seem ridiculous. Surely with magsafe charging it's not outside the realms of possibility to integrate a hot swappable removable battery pack on the device itself without compromising on size and weight too much.
However, I imagine that Apple's marketing department will work their usual magic and if and when this is finally announced im sure the presentation is going to make everyone feel they want one.
Wow, such a needed and must have 2 hour battery life! People will be using these everywhere, and all the time!
Especially with those proprietary backup battery packs SOLD SEPARATELY.
Especially with those proprietary backup battery packs SOLD SEPARATELY.
I am really happy that the CD days are over.
I doubt that consumer dictates what you are suggesting.
I understand your point.
Universal plug is benefit to everyone who can reuse own gadget. I think you know it too. But thats not even the point. Its the designer who is nowdays(yes i live till this day to see it with my own pity eyes) artificially slowing down certain versions of these ports(usb-c on ipad 2022). And not only Apple.
I do not believe statement “new is innovation” is true. Internet of things, ha i can see how my tomatoes rot in the fridge. Washing machine that needs NFC at best had wifi. If the wifi can hang clothes ill buy that machine. How about the wheel ? Its pretty old. Apples licensing of lightning is an example that contradicts Apples innovative approach to ports. I mean its all about money and not consumer, lightning was here to harvest money and i do like lightning, its good mostly fallproof design.
Its not bad that Apple and EU waste their time trying to outsmart each other. It means less time spent on us.
"According to Gurman, the round tip must be rotated clockwise to lock it in so that it doesn't fall out during use"
Battery powered devices stop working if the battery is disconnected. There's not really any way around that, unless electricity is wirelessly transmitted, which is inefficient. The connector will lock so that doesn't happen. That's one reason to not just use a USB-C connector.
Or, Apple could build to battery in to the headset, like most other VR sets. The problem is weight. They get to be uncomfortable after a while. This is a well-documented issue with VR headsets. People go to great lengths to make them more comfortable by trying to counter-balance weight, etc. (e.g., https://sea.mashable.com/tech/21121...ain-to-wear-heres-how-i-made-mine-comfortable). I'd use my VR headset more if it was lighter and more comfortable. I'd love to use it for work (Virtual Desktop) but all I can manage is some short gaming sessions.
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Extra batteries have always been sold separately.
If you’re the sole reason for changes, you’re also the sole reason for stagnation.
When microUSB (and 30-pin connector) was the standard on phones, Apple launched lightning because that allowed them to build thinner, less prone to break iPhones, and bidirectional connection, which is a competitive advantage.
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, because approval will take years and, most importantly, everyone will have to use it, you’re not going to invest money on improving connectors.
There’s a benefit to mandatory standardisation? Of course (not only with connectors), but the risk of stagnation is way bigger. So I’d say it only make sense when it comes to safety.
Hopefully they can dedicate an engineer to do some lifetime/durability testing on the outer material for the cable. If, God forbid, they use the same material as on Mac charging cables AR users will be doomed to constant cable replacements. We have had a lot of Macs, and despite every effort the charging cable splits at the flexpoint where the magsafe connects. Kinda hard to believe sometimes.
It’s like people’s dislike of this headset is making them dumber.
Literally everything with a removable/disconnectable battery has a physical method of avoiding accidental battery disconnect.
They won't have to. This either indicates that Apple will launch this before they release this product (otherwise this wouldn't be legal, and as a consequence, the 2nd gen will break backwards compatibility) or that this port cannot charge the device at all and is purely to bring power from the battery to the device, and the battery itself is charged through USB-C. The law that will require iPhones to use USB-C already covers headsets like this.
Yes. Everything with a removeable battery has that indeed. It's called a battery cover. But that isn't the case here. If the battery is its own unit only connected with a cable, then you don't have such a cover. Regardless, the way this works as described above implies that every time the battery nears depletion, you'll have to turn off your device to replace the battery. Unless the glasses themselves hold a charge to bridge that time gap.
If they *do* hold a charge however, then it means Apple will have to release this device before the USB-C requirement becomes law.
The big deal is focusing on the ‘proprietary’ charging port and the outrage it will generate from the usual suspects. Then there will the drama of whether the new port is ‘legal’ or not. Yes, this device will probably be available only in the U.S. to start but the European Union’s charging port mandate will be dragged around and used to generate controversy. Just saying.
But wait, it’s not a charging port after all, it’s a powering port and the battery pack will have a USB-C charging port. Oh never mind, false controversy.
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I am happy to report that the new MagSafe3 on my M1 MBP is proving to be a lot more durable than all of my previous MagSafe cables.
Apple can avoid the controversy by allowing USB-C charging in addition to MagSafe, just like they do on the current MBPs.
Now its time we read this particular part of the article again, but this time with our brains turned on....
"It is designed to be charged via USB-C"
The external battery pack is said to look like an iPhone MagSafe battery pack and is "about the size of an iPhone but thicker," reports Gurman. It is designed to be charged via USB-C, and can be powered up using the same adapter included with the MacBook Pro.
It is designed to be charged via USB-C
IT IS DESIGNED TO BE CHARGED VIA USB-C!
If anyone would actually read, this magnetic connector is *not* how you charge it.
Literally in the article, it says that it will charge via USB-C, this is just how you connect the battery to the headset.
Literally in the article, it says that it will charge via USB-C, this is just how you connect the battery to the headset.
I see a lot of angst around the use of a proprietary charging plug of sorts.
I'm more curious as to getting investigatory reports on why an existing charging plug/socket may not work as well as Apple wants. Of course, that's an assumption of mine, but I'd like to hear the story around that. (Yes, yes, I already hear projections that it's all about money and limiting the use of charging set to proprietary Apple models. But, is it really, or is it only?)
I'm more curious as to getting investigatory reports on why an existing charging plug/socket may not work as well as Apple wants. Of course, that's an assumption of mine, but I'd like to hear the story around that. (Yes, yes, I already hear projections that it's all about money and limiting the use of charging set to proprietary Apple models. But, is it really, or is it only?)