> There doesn't really seem to be anything interesting about this.

Agreed. Seriously, am I missing something or are the compact chargers from various other companies at least as compelling as this? I've got a nice one from Lenovo with high output and a smaller form factor than this. (Several other manufacturers have a similar size and output so nothing special about Lenovo here). The Apple one, while maybe smaller then their usual, is still bigger and appears to be short and "fat" which can limit where you can plug it sometimes.

Or is just another "but this time it is from Apple" kind of thing. (All the vapor chamber talk from a few days ago had me scratching my head too.)

It’s slightly interesting in a “look how much stuff they crammed in there” way, but that would be true of a lot of other tiny chargers too.

Having read the article, I’m a little surprised this hit the front page. It’s well done as a tear down. But that’s all it is.