Is slapping the MagSafe battery on once when you buy it such an extra step it bothers you?

Yes because inductive charging has a lot of losses, they are ~75% efficient, that means that you waste 1/4 of your battery capacity, and that is power that you also pay for in your electricity bill (for how it's small).

While a phone with removable battery, like it was normal back in the days, you just buy whatever number of batteries you want, when the battery is dead you replace it, and you instantly have a 100% charged phone in a matter of 10 seconds. It's surely better than a MagSafe, than a powerbank, etc.

	▲	wltr 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, I remember these days. For one of my early days smartphones — Motorola MPx — I had like three or four pieces. That was great, also I charged them with a universal battery. Remember similar times with Galaxy S3 and S4.

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itake 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Between having 2x battery built into the phone and 2x battery that detaches, I’d like the built in option.

I don’t want to deal with losing it. I don’t want to deal with carrying around 2 chargers/cables or charging both at the same time. I want the efficiencies of everything built together and not transmitted through casings

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crazygringo 6 days ago | parent [-]

...then buy the non-Air version if you want a thicker phone? That's not being discontinued, you know.

I genuinely don't know what you're complaining about.

You're not going to lose it. It's attached. You don't need 2 chargers or 2 cables. It reverse charges wirelessly via the phone when it's plugged in.

It's an option. People usually want options, but you're complaining you only want things the way you want them, and not let other people have different options...?

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eastbound 6 days ago | parent [-]

The non-Air iPhone still is unbalanced when putting it flat on a table.

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crazygringo 5 days ago | parent [-]

That feels like a completely different conversation.

	▲	wltr 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I read the original comment like ‘we’d love to have another phone, a thinker one, that has this huge camera system, and also similarly huge battery, so there’s no bump.’

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thejohnconway 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They run hot, and don’t stick to the phone as well as I’d like. No, MagSafe batteries aren’t the solution for me, and I too would buy a thicker phone with more battery life.

	▲	crazygringo 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Apple makes thicker ones. The Air isn't replacing their other phones.

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crossroadsguy 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This! This right here. It bothers me how someone can be bothered at the prospect of having to keep paying Apple more and more and more. Must an anti-extreme-innovation person. I am just waiting for the day when Apple makes a travelling generator to charge that MagSafe battery and of course those special plugs (don't forget the wire™) and stands that will be proprietary and mandatory with that (if you don't want to void the warranty or risk getting sued by Apple for publicly endangering tech made by them).