scaredpoet - thanks for the straw man arguments.
Explain how "there's no money in making this product" is a straw-man argument.
Businesses aren't charities.
I think the fact that this product
doesn't exist blows your accusation right out of the water.
I'm talking about an adapter to allow a laptop battery to charge USB devices.
I know what you're talking about. There's still no money in it.
Stating obvious facts, for example that laptop batteries degrade over time or that Apple are now producing laptops that only have integrated batteries has nothing to do with my original question -
It has everything to do with your original question. The product doesn't exist and likely won't exist.
There's no money in it.
Unfortunately, you're equating real, concrete reasons why you won't get what you want as "straw man arguments." If they were straw men, we wouldn't be having this conversation and this thread probably would've even exist. Instead, you'd have already bought your charger off Amazon and that would've been that, because someone would've already figured it out by now.
And with the 'Optibay at $49.99' - what has this got to do with a battery adapter?
I was using it as an example that all sorts of weird adapters do exist out there, not inferring any pricing or market size.
And thus, you explain exactly what this has to do with a battery adapter. You brought it up as an example of why such niche things should exist.
I was pointing out why an Optibay is a different situation altogether. It's a niche product, but it serves a purpose that can't otherwise be served for its prospective audience. On the other hand, there are other, cheaper ways to charge an iPhone, and other, cheaper ways to recycle a laptop battery.
And the cigarette lighter comment - you can buy adapters from cassette to minijack but a cassette player hasn't been made in 5-10+ years;
Actually (and sadly, as this surprises even me),
you're wrong about that one.
if a market exists and the product is cheap to manufacturer someone will step in.
This is the one point you've made that's correct. So.... where's the product you want? Why doesn't it exist?
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Hmm... probably because there's no market.
I feel the nub of our difference of opinion here is that you do not believe a market exists and I do. There are millions of macbook owners out there with removable battery laptops that could have this need at the right price point.
Then as i said in my previous post: do the kickstarter project, become a millionaire, and prove me wrong.
With regards to kickstarter - it's not an idea that I could get off the ground due to the safety issues around selling this kind of product.
Ohhh! So you mean that because of the risks involved, it's not profitable for you to make such a product? The potential risk outweighs any potential reward?
In other words... there's no money in it?
That's not to say some spark in somewhere like China might not pick up on the idea of some device enabling users to re-purpose (or 'up-cycle') their laptop battery to charge portables.
Ah, so it's okay for some company in China to crank these risk-laden products out and get sued the moment it burns someone's house down, but not you?
I think you've pretty much explained on your own why such a product will never see the light of day.
As I said before: you would be better off selling your battery to someone using a Macbook who could really use it for its intended purpose. With the cash you get from that, buy yourself a portable charger for your iPhone. your battery will be recycled, you'll get what you want, and more people will be benefitted by these actions than what you propose.
