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Transparent AirPods and 29W Power Adapter Prototypes Surface in Photos

Chaos215bar2 said:
I don’t mean to throw any shade on Anker, since they do seem to make reliable products (several of which I own and use regularly), but have you considered that the two companies might be building their products to somewhat different standards? Smaller does not necessarily mean more expensive to build or higher quality.
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Understood but I still think it comes down to cost. Apple wants to make a $20 adapter and sell it for $99. Apple's 140W adapter is huge.
 
adamjackson said:
  1. Anker 65W: 1.65 x 1.42 x 1.74 (4 ounces)
  2. Apple 140W: ‎5.52 x 4.64 x 1.28 inches (12 ounces)
  3. Anker is 4.07 cubic inches
  4. Apple's is 32.7 cubic inches
  5. Apple's weighs 3 times as much.
  6. Apple's charger has about 60% more wattage but is 3x heavier.
  7. apple's charger is 8 times larger than Anker's by cubic inches
electronics aren't always a matter of multiplication as a linear curve but apple's is a GAN I charger and Anker's is GAN II that's why it's smaller. I'm challenging Apple who is selling a charger that costs $99 instead of $39 to at least only be double the size of Anker's versus 3X the size and that comes through Apple adopting better design. I think Apple can make their charger smaller and chose not to for price reasons.

There are GAN II 100W adapters out there that are much smaller than Apple's and all I'd lose is, at peak performance, the apple laptop would discharge slightly. I think that's what I'll have to do as Apple's brick is just too large for travel.
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Not to mention that the CEO of Anker mentioned on a recent Decoder podcast interview that GAN III is already on the way, with higher outputs and smaller sizes. Anker is consistently leapfrogging Apple in chargers, and often at the same or lower prices.
 
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Apple's transparent plastic is just iconic... The way it bends the light with it's curves is awesome. (you can see this more in that power adapter) I still remember the clear blue g3s we had at our middle school. I hope it comes back in some way in the future.
 
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