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> I think it's pretty crummy to throw in a proprietary battery plug when there isn't some power profile requirement to do so I'm not one to defend Apple, but w
by bastawhiz 3y ago
> I think it's pretty crummy to throw in a proprietary battery plug when there isn't some power profile requirement to do so
I'm not one to defend Apple, but what else would they use? USB? Folks would just use whatever cord they have lying around, and it probably wouldn't work. USB, for how incredibly amazing it is, has so many incompatible cables that aren't labeled in any way that it's almost a certainty that folks would get it wrong. And with the number of noncompliant cables and chargers out there, you'd already be reading about people frying their brand new Vision Pro devices by plugging them into the wrong thing.
At the very least, if you use a knock off Vision Pro battery cable and it fries your device, it's because the cable is manufactured in a grossly negligent way and not because the wrong combination of items were innocently chosen.
- riffraff 3y agoI agree that it made sense from a pragmatic point of view, but airpods and ipads come with USB-C and I've never heard a story of anyone frying them with a random cable. I mean, surely it happens but it seems a pretty low frequency event. I feel the intersection of the set of people buying really expensive apple stuff, those who get really cheap USB-C cables, and also not being aware of the issue, is somewhat small.
- CooCooCaCha 3y agoI mean, there could be many reasons. Perhaps USB-C was too easy to knock out of the socket. Perhaps they had special power delivery requirements. The headset has no internal battery, whereas other apple devices do have internal batteries which means they can still work if the power is inconsistent or low.
- makeitdouble 3y agoThe macbook pro comes with a USB cable and charger, so that's something Apple is OK to do on high power devices.
- bastawhiz 3y agoThe cable doesn't sit between the MacBook and its battery