MagSafe 3 Charging Cable Now Available in New Colors Matching MacBook Air

[darngooddesign]

What do you plug the other side of the MagSafe into to energize the hockey puck? Thats the part i suggest should be USB-C. That would require the USB-C charger…

I bought a MagSafe puck two months ago and it was USB-C on the charging brick side; there has never been a MagSafe puck that used Lightning on the charging brick side. Apple has never made a charging brick that had a female Lightning port; Apple's bricks have always been Firewire, USB-A, or USB-C.

Regarding Apple using lightning for longer… they may have, but apparently the industry has chosen the USB-C open source standard as opposed to the proprietary Apple Lightning… and its not the first time Apple wanted the whole industry to use their proprietary data transfer technology… Remember Firewire and FireWire 800? We don’t see that incorporated into many things anymore, and ever really did.

Firewire 400 and 800 were not proprietary; they were open standards. Firewire was actually very popular with audio equipments, and it was significantly faster than any USB alternative. USB just brute-forced its way into popularity.

 

[jlc1978]

Who gives a ****? The ones who believe in Apple's "attention to details".

Matching the plug to the brick also reflects "attention to details."

f anything there are three or four different data bandwidths which all use the same USB-C plug (you can't look at a USB-C cable and tell if it is regular USB-C or TB-4), so its not like the EU is going to fix any confusing mess.

Very true, and along with USB-C allowing proprietary use of some lines, means there won't be one standard cable beyond basic charging.

I agree that the USB (anything) is confusing, frustrating, and sometimes worse… but at least if they settle on one type to be multi-purpose then we as consumers can stop worrying about if we got the right cable at the tech shop

Except they didn't beyond plug design and basic PD requirements. Apple and others could still have customers designs that provide functionality beyond an EU compliant cable so that one of those is needed to use all it's features.

Firewire 400 and 800 were not proprietary; they were open standards. Firewire was actually very popular with audio equipments, and it was significantly faster than any USB alternative. USB just brute-forced its way into popularity.

Quality film/slide scanners as well.

 

[darngooddesign]

Very true, and along with USB-C allowing proprietary use of zoom lines, means there won' be one standard cable beyond basic charging.

Yep. Not to mention, you have to use as short a cable as possible to get the fastest data transfer rates. USB-C is only simpler when it comes to basic charging.

Quality film/slide scanners as well.

FW also provided power when USB didn't which meant one cable for power and data on external drives. One of the iPod's features was crazy fast (at the time) transfer and charging through the same FW400 cable; you could fill the iPod in minutes instead of hours. It really was the superior open standard which is why all Macs at the time had FW, but most PCs, especially consumer PCs, had USB-A because FW was more expensive to implement.

 

[jlc1978]

Yep. Not to mention, you have to use as short a cable as possible to get the fastest data transfer rates.

Which will led to teh "Apple is screwing the consumer because my cheap 3 foot cable doesn't transfer data at the fastest rate" whines.

USB-C is only simpler when it comes to basic charging.

A point lost on most of those say the EU is finally forcing Apple and others to standardize on one cable.

FW also provided power when USB didn't which meant one cable for power and data on external drives. One of the iPod's features was crazy fast (at the time) transfer and charging through the same FW400 cable; you could fill the iPod in minutes instead of hours. It really was the superior open standard which is why all Macs at the time had FW, but most PCs, especially consumer PCs, had USB-A because FW was more expensive to implement.

I had one of those iPods; and still have a Nikon Firewire scanner. Fortunately there is a Thunderbolt adaptor.

 

[Chateaunole-du-Pape]

Regarding Apple using lightning for longer… they may have, but apparently the industry has chosen the USB-C open source standard as opposed to the proprietary Apple Lightning… and its not the first time Apple wanted the whole industry to use their proprietary data transfer technology… Remember Firewire and FireWire 800? We don’t see that incorporated into many things anymore, and ever really did.

I don't think Apple is pushing anyone to adopt MagSafe for laptop charging.. Moreover, of course MagSafe provides just charging, not data transfer.

 

[darngooddesign]

I don't think Apple is pushing anyone to adopt MagSafe for laptop charging.. Moreover, of course MagSafe provides just charging, not data transfer.

I doubt Apple will ever licensed the Mac's MagSafe3; its one of those nice things you get with a Mac.