The sad thing is, Apple is on the USB-IF and could've donated their Magsafe patent to USB C and made the magnetic connector an option the USB C (not a requireme

The sad thing is, Apple is on the USB-IF and could've donated their Magsafe patent to USB C and made the magnetic connector an option the USB C (not a requirement, too expensive, probably) and they could've kept a magnetic connector for all their USB C laptops , it would've come for free for the iPad and tomorrow, of course, the iPhone could have one too. It's not like other manufacturers having this option would be worse than Apple not having it! There is a Kickstarter which promised and showed demos of running Thunderbolt over a magnetic connector. I do not think it's a scam, we will see, but what I am saying, this is not out of the realm of possibilities. Yes, it's tricky running 40gbps over pogopins this small but if Apple helped? That's vastly different.