Apple Prototyped MagSafe iPhone Chargers in Different Colors, Including Unreleased 'Magic Charger' Stand

[Nozuka]

That’s somewhat the point. Steve Jobs would have been involved.

There is no proof that it would have ended in a different name.
And it is also not a good thing. A CEO needs to let the people with the expertise in that area do their job.

Honestly, if Apple is good at anything, it is definitely marketing.

 

[lazyrighteye]

As the owner of a Starlight MBA, that puck looks more Apple Watch Rose Gold than Starlight.

Anyway, if color-coordinated MagSafe pucks/cables is the most shocking thing I read today, it’ll be one of the better days in some time.

 

[Mr_Ed]

Portless iPhone confirmed.

I certainly hope that is not the case. The simple act of grabbing a different set of headphones becomes a major PITA compared to just plugging them in.

You now have to pair them. If you have multiple pairs, you hope the phone remembers paring for all of them. Your friend or SO wants to borrow a pair, back to step one. Are they rechargeable? Make sure they are charged. It all just seems so much more involved than it ever needed to be for the majority of use cases.

I get that for some folks not having wires is really important, and if that’s the case, it’s clearly worth the hassle. But the thing is, these devices should support both wired and wireless audio.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

It’s 2023! I hope a colored Apple Polishing Cloth is up next.

 

[17fox]

I don’t prefer charging iPhones using via MagSafe due to overheating the back of the iPhone + slow charging reasons but I guess I’ll take a MagSafe in Product Red 😞

So sad, that it's overheating for you. My iPhone is almost always pretty cool during charging.

 

[addamas]

Bought something similar before, and it stopped working with my AW the next day.
These companies aren’t big “proper” brands like Anker or Ugreen. They don’t have MFI-certified products. The design looks appealing, but why do big companies like Apple or Belkin sell them?
I’m a Chinese dude and I know that these stuff are unreliable.

Of course only idea is great. Agree with you on quality of MFI and good brands. I.e. IKEA MFi cable is great.
Test passed with 100% real MFI and well made inside:

About this MagSafe creature:
I own this charger, it’s not great after I used it for few days.
I had to put heatsinks on back of it as it was overheating 11Pro with MagSafe case and Apple Watch is getting warm (which is not heating at all in original AW charger and Apple charger duo 2x usb-C, same goes for IPhone with original MagSafe to which I added heatsinks also for better battery life).

I put it as a show that technology is possible but maybe the heat is problem. Also AW is charged only with around 5W when using 20W charger

 

[75Batt]

That’s somewhat the point. Steve Jobs would have been involved.

Yes Steve was involved in products but he would NEVER have been able to be involved in naming a charger with Apple this size.

 

[814MB]

Ok cool. Now how about a cord that is 9’ long.

 

[MacWiz_007]

Wow, the innovation just keeps on comin'!!! Woohoo for Apple! 🤣

 

[t0rqx]

Amazing. This is M1 Macbook Pro all over again. It cost 2 cts to dye the charger, it is too much cost for this to happen. Apple was al about details like this, nowadays not so much.

 

[jicon]

'Prototype'. Macrumors, do a bit better on the editing front. There's some language struggle going on with the Tweet.

"Recently got some prototype and informations."

 

[techcboy]

groundbreaking innovation

I’m going to presume this is a joke right? It’s just like other products that come in colours, they never call colour innovation, it’s just providing more options to the consumer.

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

What exactly is there to prototype?

 

[techcboy]

Wow, what an outstanding innovation. Bravo.

No one is calling it innovation. It’s a prototype of a product, not Apple making a huge announcement about the craftsmanship that went in to creating a coloured MagSafe cable.

 

[techcboy]

What exactly is there to prototype?

The colour. You need to have a prototype in order to check the colour is coming out as expected and see how it would look as a finished product. This happens for almost all products made in the world.

 

[techcboy]

Rainbow, colors and more colours; legacy of an accountant.

Tim cooks legacy? Apple Watch, Apple Silicon, lead a company through a pandemic and became one of the only companies in tech to not have mass layoffs, Apple VR headset no doubt and carried the company to the $3T cap they’re at now… to name a few.

 

[Muzzakus]

Every sperm is sacred

 

[klasma]

I wonder which color charges best. It's important to prototype that stuff!

 

[techcboy]

It’s 2023! I hope a colored Apple Polishing Cloth is up next.

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Nah, they wouldn’t go for those sort of colours and I think certain products will forever stay with White, Silver, Black and Grey. Charging Bricks, MBP’s, Polishing cloth and Mac Pro wheels 😂

 

[Apple Fan 2008]

Nah, they wouldn’t go for those sort of colours and I think certain products will forever stay with White, Silver, Black and Grey. Charging Bricks, MBP’s, Polishing cloth and Mac Pro wheels 😂

iPod Socks anyone?

 

[addamas]

I wonder which color charges best. It's important to prototype that stuff!

Red is the fastest based on Warhammer 😂

 

[phenste]

why did this thread so suddenly turn into a TC hate thread? damn. colored MagSafe options would be nice—if you recall, one of the (many) legacies of the original iMac was offering them in bold, translucent colors as opposed to the standard beige/grey/black dominating the market at the time…

yeah, iPhone MagSafe isn’t the same as MB MagSafe in terms of saving it from a trip, but the core concept is the same. it makes sense to name them similarly. and Apple is finally contributing to the open standard in Qi2…yall gotta chill sometimes

 

[fbr$]

Color options, but no cord size options? Are colors more important than functionality?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Color options, but no cord size options? Are colors more important than functionality?

Colors are not more important than functionality but this bugs me. Why is this white?

 

[MuppetGate]

Yes Steve was involved in products but he would NEVER have been able to be involved in naming a charger with Apple this size.

Yup, people forget that Apple is an order of magnitude larger than it was when Jobs was in charge.

But gotta love the notion that Cook is mediocre because someone’s phone will drop on the floor because (checks notes) he named it wrong.