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Will it work with other MagSafe accessories?
i.e. will the phone/battery combination stick to a MagSafe car phone holder?
will the MagSafe wallet stick to the back of the battery?

The ridiculousness of USB-C is measured in three ways:

1) the fragility of the contact. I have a high quality OWC TB3 cable running from my laptop to an OWC TB3 dock. But if I only as much as look at my MBP the wrong way, all disks disconnect. There’s no meaningful locking the connectors in place, which is with what amounts to a PCIe connection NOT a desirable situation. So, holes for a screw-down USB-C connector would be a must for a device that has “Pro” in its name.

2) There’s no reasonable USB-C connector hubs. You want a USB hub with 5-13 USB ports? No problem, but they are still all USB-A connectors. So you either need to buy a dozen or so USB-A-to-USB-C adapter dongles (not exactly improving the reliability of a connection) or you still need to mix and match USB-C and USB-A type cables, unable to finally scale down the cable collection to just one type.

3) No clear way of knowing what cable you actually have: USB-only? USB/TB3? USB4? How much power can it carry?

As nice as the promise of a single, compact connector for everything is, its execution is fubar.

Maybe by the time only USB4 cables are sold, they figured out a way for cables to actually stay in place.

Until then: USB-C connects are IT hell.

So can a MagSafe wallet be slapped on the back of the battery, or are they mutually exclusive?

applebynature said:

It's a shame they didn't make a separate one for each of the 3 iphone styles. It really doesn't make sense with its size is so constrained by the mini, a phone that I've never seen in the wild with an actual person.

Actually, the mini is a great phone! Unless you buy a Pro Max for the cameras and LiDAR, there’s little reason to buy anything but the mini, unless you’re visually impaired.

Got a mini as travel phone (local SIM), and a Pro Max as daily driver.

The problem is, standards bodies should make sure relevant patents are negotiated to be licensed as a bundle under fixed terms (FRAND) and license fees covered by the manufacturer of the components used to implement them BEFORE passing standards.

it’s untenable that companies, regardless who, implementing an industry standard in a product end up getting extorted from all sides individually for using components implementing an industry standard.

What’s next, suing individual iPhone users for violating patents by using the phones?