Looks like the magsafe patent will expire in 3 years: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7311526B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US7311526B2/en Also li

Looks like the magsafe patent will expire in 3 years: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7311526B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US7311526B2/en Also lightning (the connector used in iphones starting in 2012) is different from magsafe (the connector used in macbooks starting in 2006).