Apple VP Kaiann Drance Interview Addresses Battery Life, MagSafe, and Power Adapter Concerns

[theluggage]

This is probably a stupid question but how safe is it to have the MagSafe charger close to an iMac screen? Can the magnets have a negative effect on the iPhone screen?

Not a stupid question because it was an issue with colour CRT screens in which (a) magnetic fields could deflect the elecron beams and distort the image and (b) there was a delicate steel shadow mask or aperture grilles just behind the screen which a strong magnet could potentially damage - or, just as bad, magnetise. (Holding a magnet in front of a CRT screen and seeing the effect of a magnetic field on electron beams was good, clean fun but - pro tip - use a B&W screen that doesn't have a shadow mask).

AFAIK, though, there's nothing in a modern LCD screen that can be damaged by a magnetic field - and remember that the pre-2012 iMacs used strong magnets to hold the screen in place back in the good old days before Apple discovered the Kragle...

 

[Expos of 1969]

Remember people, she is not putting a gun at your head and telling you to buy the phone. There are also hundreds of YouTubers who can give you a third party opinion about the device; there is a thread from early buyers, you can also go Apple and Carrier stores and test the device for yourself; or save the money and don’t buy it all. But don’t blame her for doing her job. She got there through intelligence and hard work.
I sense from some of you it’s jealous seeing a Asian woman in a position of power working at a powerful company.

Nope. Her ethnicity or gender has no bearing on the criticism. We criticise Tim and he is a white fellow and his lifestyle choices are not part of the equation either. Anyone deserves criticism if they are refusing to answer direct questions with truthful responses. This duck and weave and repeat lines no matter the question posed is BS and will be called out as such.

 

[tharitm]

Someone should show her this article about battery life https://www.macrumors.com/2020/10/23/iphone-12-pro-battery-life-test/

 

[Camarillo Brillo]

I sense from some of you it’s jealous seeing a Asian woman in a position of power working at a powerful company.

oh brother here we go

 

[CarlJ]

I’ve never understood the complaints about including the USB C cable in the box. I’d much rather a new USB C cable than an old USB A cable, everyone has USB A cables.

I swear if they included USB A in the box the same people would be complaining it isn’t USB C.

Heck, if they included both cables, the same people would complain about getting one they didn’t need - some of them start out with the intent to complain and then just construct a complaint using the data points at hand.

 

[daniphils]

Couldn’t stand this apple robot in the keynote already. This interview is garbage for anyone really interested in tech.

 

[Rocko99991]

Dodged the magsafe concerns that the wallet won't stick and magnets are not powerful enough to be a useful feature.

 

[Camarillo Brillo]

Honestly to me the big circular magnet charging solution is pretty dumb. I'd rather just plug a lightning cable in, if a wire is going to have to be attached to the phone anyway. Cheaper, more compact, and won't scratch the device or case. I hope this isn't another one of those gimmicks they cling to for the next 5+ years, but knowing apple, they hate to admit they were wrong.

it's not "wireless" and it is actually clunkier than lightning.

Now if they had done a small flush MagSafe 'port' where the lightning jack was, that could be cool.

 

[Expos of 1969]

Dodged the magsafe concerns that the wallet won't stick and magnets are not powerful enough to be a useful feature.

I guess the only way she sleeps at night is to review her stock options prior to turning off the light (using her Echo as Siri won't understand her command).

 

[CarlJ]

Honestly to me the big circular magnet charging solution is pretty dumb. I'd rather just plug a lightning cable in, if a wire is going to have to be attached to the phone anyway.

Expect the Lightning port to go away, in the next year or two.

 

[Camarillo Brillo]

I fully do expect Apple to do that. And I'm cool with a wireless charging pad. I just won't be sticking a magnetic donut charger to my phone. I guess unless they start including one in the box maybe 😆 I know just kidding

Also they should resist calling the MagSafe charger "wireless" as it clearly attaches a wire to your phone. It's not wireless charging, it's portless charging, at best.

 

[portland_bill]

Sure it’s reasonable to me, to you it’s not. Balancing out a ton of new tech with a different form factor seems reasonable.

I don’t consider the accessories as part of the price because I have enough spares, and the new tech balances that out.

isn’t it amazing that your reasonable opinion always, always comes down on the side of Apple? Almost like you work for them or have a ton of their stock.

 

[Camarillo Brillo]

Yeah, you know a ton of the comments here and on all the YouTube review videos are planted... I wouldn't be surprised at all

 

[Deinocheirus]

Sure it’s reasonable to me, to you it’s not. Balancing out a ton of new tech with a different form factor seems reasonable.

I don’t consider the accessories as part of the price because I have enough spares, and the new tech balances that out.

That's not how reality works. You don't get take things that are not comparable, call them comparable, and say "hey thats just my opinion". Oh what the Internet has done to people. Your opinion isn't reality.

 

[C DM]

She’s right. I’ve been saying it all along.

If you have a power adapter and you’re an iPhone user, chances are you already have a usb-a lighting cable.

If you’re coming from Android, chances are you have a usb-c charger

And usb-c has a long life ahead. It makes no sense to include usb-a. USB-C is the right choice

Then at least for the first year of transition it would make sense to include a USB-C power adapter. When Apple removed the headphone jack not only did they include brand new Lightning headphones but even an adapter on top of it.

Journalists who ask about cables not included are brain dead (not a rare condition in journalism).

Asking about something that. many consumers are wondering about is being brain dead? That's interesting logic there.

 

[Apple66]

I thought she did well during the Apple event. Loved that moment when she revealed the iPhone 12 mini from the suitcase. That whole secrecy thing is just so “Apple like”, reminding me the days of the iPhone 3G commercial.

 

[Camarillo Brillo]

We've got a number of apple employees in this thread it looks like

hi guys!

 

[mono1980]

I really don't like this woman or the corporate talk she is throwing at us. It's very transparent.

I really want to like her, but she is seriously a robot I think...

 

[topdrawer]

i don't understand wireless chargers, they have just as much wire and even clunkier connection.

 

[hans1972]

At some point the EU needs to go ahead and ban Lightning connectors, maybe then we'll get rid of the stupid things.

The motivation behind the common charger in the EU is to reduce e-waste due to chargers. What Apple did is exactly what the EU wants. They want manufacturers to not include chargers so less of them are produced.

 

[hans1972]

The lack of power adapter bothers me because: first, the cable they are giving you, will not work with your existing chargers, as it is a USB-C to lighting cable and not a USB-A to lighting cable, your old chargers from apple were all AC-to-USB-A.

You then just use your existing USB-A charger with your existing USB-A to Lightning cable. Very easy to do. Even my mother would handle this.

 

[farewelwilliams]

Kinda hard to say "it makes no sense to include a USB-A cable" when the entire world is still USB-A, all infrastructure, all vehicles, 90% of the chargers people still have.

It would be nice to snap your fingers and magically change that reality to USB-C, but you can't. Shipping a cable that most people will throw in a drawer and use some older cable is pretty ironic quite frankly. Doesn't really matter that its "the better cable".

No. If you don’t have a USB-A lightning cable already *and* you don’t have a USB-C charger anywhere in the house, you’re in the minority of iPhone 12 customers. “Shipping a cable that most people will throw in a drawer” I would stay that’s more applicable to the USB-A cable, not USB-C.

Of course you can’t snap your fingers to make that happen, that’s why you start accelerating this USB-C transition by including USB-C by default.

 

[I7guy]

But can they really stand on the roof talking about saving the environment by producing and shipping a cable that many people won’t use? Seems a tad wasteful, no?

Working toward a better environment, at least to me, is not a flip the switch and all is perfect. It's a step in the right direction with reduction of ewaste, less packaging, less space, less weight, less of a carbon footprint.

Exactly. Without real precise numbers, it's really hard to understand the true environmental impact of this. I believe, overall, this will have a positive effect (perhaps marginal but) on the environment. Too bad that costumers have to pay for it while Apple gets the good PR and the economical benefits, but...that's another separate issue, IMHO.

We've become entitled to expect these chargers and headsets. When I bought my Bose QCII for $300+ there was no charger, only a mini-usb, of which I have about 10 in the house. As well as a trs adaptor cable, and I have those also. $300 bucks and no charger. And it's not the only USB rechargable accessory that didn't have a charger.

isn’t it amazing that your reasonable opinion always, always comes down on the side of Apple? Almost like you work for them or have a ton of their stock.

Isn't it amazing no matter what Apple does and how people comment, bias of one type or another is present?

That's not how reality works. You don't get take things that are not comparable, call them comparable, and say "hey thats just my opinion". Oh what the Internet has done to people. Your opinion isn't reality.

You get to state an opinion, I get to state an opinion...that's how in internet discussion forums works? Saying what is reality or not, is based on ones biases, which amounts to just another opinion. Right?

 

[I7guy]

To be honest, the whole USB-C to Lightning change without a power adapter was a bold move. Not one I am happy due to having a USB-A adapter. So now, if I want a new iPhone and take advantage of the faster charge times, I have to purchase an extra adapter.

Not environmental nor does it make me happy about shelling extra $ for a $1k phone to work as intended.

This can be taken a step further. My xs max came with a 5w charger. To work as intended I would have had to shell out $$$ for a usb-c to lightning cable as well as a PD charger. My use case is to charge overnight and therefore speed of charging is not relevant to me. But you are correct in that if your use case is to charge as fast as possible 100% of the time, you need spend the extra $20 for the charger.

 

[Neepman]

Must be stressful knowing if you string a few wrong words together, you are out on your keister. But thats why they get the big bucks and the options dangling to keep them in-line... and scared.