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Twelve South Introduces USB-C Wall Chargers With 'Find My' Support

We are paying $120 for something that used to come with our iPhones not too long ago. Granted, there are a couple of improvements, which may or may not be useful.
 
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desslr said:
If you lose a wall charger in your own house there is something wrong with you

Also the price is ridiculous and if they sell even one to the general public I'll be shocketh
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Correct. And if I leave it behind after traveling with it, I’m SOL and need another.
 
alexandr said:
Just in case you lose a wall...
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Hey it can happen okay!
 
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This thing plugs into a wall all the time! WTF does it need a coin cell battery!?!? These guys are idiots. Please people, don't be an idiot like this company and buy this thing.
 
Good for travel, as already noted, but also may be good for any office environment where stuff has a way of being “borrowed” by coworkers.
 
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theluggage said:
I've got some timer switches that I only use during the winter that are rechargeable and they lose their charge after a few months of being unplugged.
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Built-in lithium batteries are just the worst things in the world, in many devices.

One of my neighbors bought a bunch of little solar rechargable lawn lights. Very cute. They charge up during the day and then come on after dark. At first they'd stay on through the whole night and shut off again at dawn.

But after charging and discharging a few hundred times over the course of the year, now they stay on, dimly, for maybe an hour after dark and then sputter out. They'll be landfill-bound soon enough because those lithium batteries died, as they always do. And you know for a fact they're soldered in such that only a dedicated tinkerer would be able to source and replace the battery.
 
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theluggage said:
To get the obvious out of the way: so you can still find them when they aren't plugged in to the wall!

...but I guess you meant "why can't they use a rechargeable battery for that" - which is a reasonable question but I suspect that a regular coin-cell lithium battery is cheaper and more efficient than a similarly-sized rechargeable + the requisite charging gubbins. I've got some timer switches that I only use during the winter that are rechargeable and they lose their charge after a few months of being unplugged. Plus, the target market probably already have airtags and have a stock of the cells.

Not very green though - but the green thing to do is not buy so much of this junk.
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Possibly more green than buying another charger when the internal battery wears out from constant charging.
 
McWetty said:
Clearly this is aimed at the traveler. It’s incredibly easy to leave a charger in an airport outlet. Based on these comments I’m to assume most MR commenters don’t travel regularly.
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I buy so much Apple tech so I can’t afford food let alone whats travelling 🙈
 
quietstormSD said:
This thing plugs into a wall all the time! WTF does it need a coin cell battery!?!? These guys are idiots. Please people, don't be an idiot like this company and buy this thing.
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gosh some of you people are pretty dense
full disclosure im not buying one
 
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