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I still don't understand the point of all this... What is wrong with simple barrel connector... It's not like a phone is gonna need to draw 240 watts... Just k

by anfilt 5y ago

I still don't understand the point of all this... What is wrong with simple barrel connector... It's not like a phone is gonna need to draw 240 watts... Just keeps making the spec more and more complicated... Also are the small contacts in a USB-C connector even reasonable to run with this much current? Is there enough cross sectional area on these contacts?

izacus 5y ago
How exactly am I going to charge my phone, headphones, gamepad, tablet and bunch of other devices from a barrel connector? USB-C has pretty much eliminated forlorn MacBook users shambling around our office and looking for another soul to give them a compatible proprietary charger. Let's keep it this way.
- anfilt 5y ago
  None of those devices you listed need 240 watts... That's quite a bit power to just trust some protocol to negotiate correctly.
  - izacus 5y ago
    And yet they will charge from the 240W charger all the same. Which is what makes the standard great.
  - pedroma 5y ago
    I use my MBP charger for my iPad and Android phone and it works well. Am I in the minority for doing this? Maybe, but my guess is not.
  - jayd16 5y ago
    What if the rest of the devices charge through the macbook at once?