Forum sign-up and posting have been fixed as of 4/17/25 524am MST. Please give the community a try!
Anyone with an account beforehand can reset their password to login.
Share
Apple’s USB-C shift could bring back the MagSafe Duo and Battery Pack
Mark Gurman writes in the subscriber edition of his Power Onnewsletter for Bloomberg from this morning that he expects Apple to finish its transition to USB-C by 2025. Gurman says that, in addition to other products, he expects the company will release USB-C versions of the now-discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack and the MagSafe Duo “eventually. But don’t hold your breath.”
By comparison, Apple took either a little over a month or about two years to totally move over to Lightning, depending on how you look at it.
The company retired the 30-pin port from its most important products when it launched the fourth-gen iPad a little over a month after the iPhone 5’s September 2012 debut. But it also kept the iPod Classic in its stable until…