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What Google is doing here is specifically rejecting the chargers that do conform to the standard by tacking on a proprietary handshake. HP had a similar chargi
by opencl 8y ago
What Google is doing here is specifically rejecting the chargers that do conform to the standard by tacking on a proprietary handshake.
HP had a similar charging DRM scheme on their first few models with USB-C charging but seems to have dropped it.
Apple has been doing this with non-MFi chargers since iOS 7. A lot of people were mad when the OS update made their perfectly good chargers stop working. Of course now there are clones of the MFi authentication chip and even with a new chip revision Apple can't reject them without also breaking all of the old legitimate chargers. So it completely failed to actually solve the problem anyway.
- djrogers 8y agoThis is bunk - I use a TON aid non-MFI chargers, and without exception they work as long as I have a decent cable. Old, dodgy or worn out cables can cause an error message but it’s got nothing to do with an MFI chip in the charger.
- opencl 8y agoAh yes sorry, I meant to say cable rather than charger.