Apple has a history of some quality and extremely compact power supplies.

I have to wonder if they have a team with an EE paired with an origami artist, with how creative some of the layouts get.

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sugarpimpdorsey 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Does Apple even design their own chargers? I know previous chargers have been built by Samsung, Flextronics, and other power electronics companies.

Apple sells Anker chargers from within their online store and possibly retail too so I figured they threw in the towel long ago. Honestly it seems quite overpriced when you can get a similar Anker GaN charger for much less.

And no, this isn't 2004 anymore, non-OEM chargers are outstanding as long as they're not $2 crap off AliExpress.

When Apple stopped including the charger in the box with iPhone as a sleazy money grab, it was a tacit admission that non-OEM chargers reigned supreme. Still didn't stop the pious and devout from shelling out an extra $25 though.

	▲	Moto7451 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		For a while Samsung made a lot of everything Apple made. I think that’s maybe more coincidence than ODM. That said, if it were the case it wouldn’t be the first time. The LG 5K display was very much an Apple/LG project the former wasn’t happy to put their name on (in its defense, I have a revision 2 model and think it’s great). Logitech made Apple keyboards and Mice for a long time (no idea if that’s still the case) and would happily let you know in System Profiler or a manufacturing sticker somewhere in the product. In the 90s, many printing products were straight up HP and Cannon printers with a rainbow Apple logo. I’m guessing we wouldn’t really hear as much about the ODM rebrands of minor devices that work out that don’t make it obvious what they are.
	▲	fuzzfactor 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		>Does Apple even design their own chargers? Good question. For this one it says right on the package, designed by Apple in California.
	▲	baybal2 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
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dangus 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Quality, yes. Extremely compact, no.

Something like the Anker Prime 100W GaN charger is far more compact than any charger Apple has shipped.

Now, granted, many compact chargers lie about how long they can provide sustained power. That's exactly what this "dynamic" charger is doing, except that it's being more up-front about the fact that it's not a 60W charger, it's a "60W until it's inevitably too hot" charger.