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I hate proprietary connectors, but I love MagSafe—it's saved my laptop many times. Why can't all connectors be magsafe?

• logfromblammo 11y ago
  In short, that's because Apple flat-out refuses to license the patent to anyone. Never mind that magnetic power connectors had already been invented, and that Apple's patent is essentially another "this already existing thing except on a computer" patent.