Apple’s USB-C shift could bring back the MagSafe Duo and Battery Pack
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6ETZW)
Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Mark Gurman writes in the subscriber edition of his Power On newsletter for Bloomberg from this morning that he expects Apple to finish its transition to USB-C by 2025. Gurman says that, in addition to other products, he expects the company will release USB-C versions of the now-discontinued MagSafe Battery Pack and the MagSafe Duo eventually. But don't hold your breath."
By comparison, Apple took either a little over a month or about two years to totally move over to Lightning, depending on how you look at it.
The company retired the 30-pin port from its most important products when it launched the fourth-gen iPad a little over a month after the iPhone 5's September 2012 debut. But it also kept the iPod Classic in its stable until...