Love seeing all this national pride! I only said it wasn't sleek. And to stir the pot, if it was so great, why doesn't more than 3 countries use it?
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Apple's 40W Dynamic Power Adapter Expands to New Countries
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Way more than 3 countries use it. Besides the UK and Ireland, it’s the official national standard in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Cyprus, Macau, Malta, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Sri Lanka, and the UAE.
And apparently there’s about 40 more countries where you’ll find it used to some degree, notably Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and other African countries.
Other countries don’t want to mess with the status quo. Imagine, trying to get hundreds of millions of people to change every single electronic device they own to a new plug. There would be riots
none of the 17s even pros can even take advantage of the dynamic charging. only yhe new ipads
LOL, can you imagine! That wasn't what I meant, I was just saying (sarcastically) that if it was so good, more countries would have adopted it originally vs. what they currently use.
I wouldn't mind getting one of these for airplane use, but Apple's not selling them outside of the countries that use this plug.
Tbh Apple's wired charging situation isn't great. They have this single-port one and then their dual port one is 35W? I've given Apple feedback on more than one occasion that they should release some more multi-port chargers. I think they should have no single port ones tbh. Leave third-parties make single port ones, Apple could include dual plugs with all their things, and offer an option to choose a triple port plug.
E.g. instead of a 40W with 60W temporary boost they would have a two-port one that had that feature on both ports and when charging a powerful laptop the plug could take the power from both ports by itself if the other ports weren't needing much current at that time. Apple is the perfect position to solve such real-life charging situations with elegance and SAFETY.
Belkin and Anker plugs aren't as high quality as Apple's plugs internally. You can tell this when you live in a 230v country where those other plugs can give you a tingle if the cable touches your bare arm while charging, whereas Apple's do not. None of these three brands have earthed plugs for mobile device, but Apple's have better shielding.
Some high-powered dual and triple-port Apple plugs would be awesome. Often if you have a designated area for charging, like a charging zone at a standalone table with a lamp on it typically the lamp leaves only one outlet free. This is where dual and triple-port plugs come in extremely handy. Apple could keep the two or three leads together magnetically with a pretty cable tidy to prevent them falling down—perhaps also magnetically—colour matched with the cable. We need better charging solutions from Apple. They are more than capable.
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It’s largely an iPhone charger. You know how devices have a “charging curve” and won’t charge 60W the whole way, the 60W covers the fast-charging portion of the charge, then both iPhone and plug slows down to 40W and beyond. Designing the plug to stay at 60W would require a physically larger plug to do so with a high degree of quality and safety (something Apple takes more seriously than Anker and Belkin I have found in my experience), whereas this plug is meant to be 60W intermittently, as most of its use will be: plug in an iPhone and leave it in until it’s charged.
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Fast-charging with this plug gets iPhone 17, 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max from 0 - 50% in 20 minutes
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You are right, but being more efficient like you said equates to being cleaner no?Also by extension, being more efficient with less heat means GaN chargers can maintain peak wattage for longer = device charging faster overall?
And, the difference between Apple and other companies making similar sized 60W chargers is that Apple’s not calling it 60W.
That’s not how charging works. You can have a 60W charger and a 30W charger and, if the device is asking for 30W, then both will charge that device at the same speed. The 60W charger is not going to send 60W to a device asking for 30W. If Anker devices do that, they’re not safe.