I think it is white to match the white charging bricks that Apple uses.
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MagSafe 3 Charging Cable Now Available in New Colors Matching MacBook Air
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I think it is white to match the white charging bricks that Apple uses.
love how people are automatically obsessed with the newest color always lmao... "oh my favorite color changes every year" LOLOLOL C:
This is like saying why produce the products in metal, plastic is way cheaper and just up the prizes cause people will keep buying. Why use different colours if we could only use one. If you really wanted to make great profits you apply standards and keep products as simple as possible without many variants.
In other words why did they even bother making different colours. You do understand they made different colours available cause they got **** over them during reviews about the un-Apple like design thinking.
Of course, I totally get that, but isn't that still kind of vague design? I mean white brick & connector chasis, cable & opposite connector other color? 🤷🏼♂️
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Would you like to see Apple offer color specific charging bricks as well? Or would you just prefer to see the cable all one color, so it is only the charging brick that is a separate color?
I kind of half wonder if Apple isn't making the USB-C end white, so if you use a third party charging brick, the color might not match exactly. But honestly, I feel like you would have to be pretty OCD to be bothered by that.
Sure, complete nitpick.
If I could choose, I'd go same color for both charger and cable.
Yes. Since they can also be charged via the USB-C port.
Nah I always hated space grey. It never looked right with me and space grey is more prone to visible wear and tear. Whenever I saw space grey I thought "why don't they just make it fully black then?" Well now they have.
No. Not without having an adapter stick out like the cheap ones you get on Amazon.
but why? The white USB-C end matches the cable and the charger just as well if not even better
plus a blue apple charger would look weird
That would be anything but comfortable and practical, and you lose the benefit of being able to hang your phone by the cable if you drop it
They knew they would have to comply with the USB-C regulations so they came up with the other MagSafe which is in addition to USB-C.
Remember this cable will support the MBP 16” with its 140 watt charger. Cheap cables usually max out at 40 watts.
Was never a fan of it either, it's always seemed like a lame version of black to me. The actually black trackpad looks great.
As for the various other colors I had a (rose) gold phase with iPhones/iPads/watches and it got tiring quickly
This! I never even liked MagSafe because of how easy it was to disconnect when sitting e.g. on a sofa or with the laptop on your knees (the argument that it is supposed to prevent the computer from being dragged from the table with the cable never convinced me as nothing remotely similar has ever happened to me...). So it was pretty ironic to discover that after over six years with my previous MBP, my new laptop would have MagSafe again... I do not use it anyway, as now with one USB-C cable I can charge my MBP, my iPad and my phone (I do not have an iPhone), whereas if we were to stick to what Apple proposes by default, we would have to use three different cables for three devices... Of course it is nice to have a choice, as someone here correctly pointed out, but tbh I would prefer to have some other ports (USB-A, yeah, sue me!) instead of a pretty useless MagSafe with only one application.
MagSafe is in addition to USB-C charging. MagSafe also fast charges to 50% in 30 minutes if you order the higher capacity brick.
No, that is a question of level of product quality; a seperaet engineering and design choice.
Exactly, that is why companies have standard designs. It is about not letting small costs result in a larger one that impacts profits.
Apple saw a chance to sell cables to people who wanted them. Notice they don't include them in the box; those are one standard cable.
Personally, I think it's much do about nothing.
This made me laugh. The 21st Century is wild. What a privileged sentence.
Magnetic device saves portable computer from clumsy robot. The future is crazy!
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They will allow it; since the MBA can already be charged through USB-C. They don't have any issue with products that have additional ports that can be charged through. They only have beef against products that CANNOT be charged through a standardized port.
No no no no no, that isn't MagSafe, that's a bad joke. Heavy, space consuming, magnets in the phone. Slow, inefficient, charging. Wireless, and yet, has a wire.?????
Ha, well spotted! I suppose the white USB-C connector matches the white charger you will plug it into.....