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It would be a horrifically bad idea for Taiwan to export their latest process to America, matched only by Ukraine's idiotic idea of giving up their nukes in the 1990s. What incentive would the USA have to protect Taiwan if their tech was already in the USA? 

You're probably right. It's sad, because with MagSafe half the electricity gets used to increase the entropy of the universe which raises carbon emissions for no reason. It is slow, it makes the phones bigger and heavier, and hardly anyone uses it. And yet, for so many years the only thing reviewers would say every September was "and it still doesn't have teh wireless chargez!". Apple doesn't want the big story in September to be that, so they will include the wasteful and useless thing.