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I just placed my order here in Germany via Amazon.  I hope that it stays connected better than the Flowerbud.  At least with a bigger tank I will only have to fill it every couple of days instead of daily.  Now, if I don't have to unplug it and plug it back in daily to get it to respond, I'll be really happy.

Strange choice of extract posted to this article.  The text is written in Portuguese (not Spanish) and includes a link back to Apple's Brazilian (apple.com/br) website.  I'm not sure that the article references the correct design document as this would likely not be so helpful to a Mexican business. Likely inadvertent mistake. 

What is a bit strange is that now many of the chargers regardless of wattage (Fast-charge or not) are all the same price.  The beloved / bemoaned 5W cube is $19, the "standard" iPad 12W charger with the "duckbill" is also $19 and the new 20W charger that replaces the 18W charger that came with the iPhone 11 (Pro versions only) is also $19.  I can't imagine that too many people will buy the 5W (or really the 12W either) when they can now get quick charging for the same price.  The only market for the older chargers will be those that have hordes of USB-A to lightning cables and don't want to pony up another $19 for a USB-C to lightning cable like @bestkeptsecret  alludes too.

bestkeptsecret said:

I have lots of iPhones and iPads. What I don't have is even a single USB-C charger. 

Apple makes a strong case for the environment, but their argument that people have dozens of chargers lying around falls flat when this will be the first iPhone with a USB-C charging cable.

I think those people are going to be few and far between since users will be getting at least one USB-C to Lightning cable in the iPhone box (regardless of which iPhone they buy; SE, XR, 11, or 12).  Either they will buy the iPhone and not a charger because they already have hordes of them or they will pony up the $19 for the 20W and use it with the included cable. When their old chargers are removed from service (broken, lost, etc.) and they see that they are going to have to shell out a Jackson regardless of if they go for 5W or 20W they will probably buy a new cable to go with it (whether Apple branded or not).

The "duckbill" style would be perfect if it were 18-20W because then it would support fast charging and be pretty great for international travel (not a big issue at the moment of course).
This brings me to the below comment:

fred1 said:

The price reduction is nice and would be even better if it were enough to appease the people who want a price reduction for the iPhone 12es that don’t have these. 

I hope the USB-C adaptor price is reduced for the European version too. That bad boy is expensive!

The EU versions of the chargers mentioned above (5, 12, and 20W) are also all the same price at 24.35€ (in Germany).

If you want fast charging with the "duck bill" you have to step up to the 30W which now seems over priced at $49 / 53.60€ (more than double the price of the 20W). A price at $29-$39 / 35-45€ would be a bit more in line with the other chargers' pricing IMHO.

Fear of being hoodWINKed is what causes me to only buy hardware that is compatible with Homekit.  I am confident that Apple wouldn't pull a move like this because their main business is hardware which is priced to be sustainable.  No matter what happens to an individual hardware manufacturer and their platform, at least I will have the same functionality for the life of the product if it works with Homekit.  This decision has meant delays in adding some things that I would like in home automation because there wasn't sufficient (or any) availability for some types of devices, but I have never had to switch hardware just because a company changed its business model.

When I picked up my iPad I had nearly 20 updates and all had update release dates in the past. Several updates were ones that I had consciously installed over the last few days. This seemed really odd at the time and I thought I was kind of seeing a bunch of Apps had not successfully updated. This article explains what happened. Thanks AI!