[colechristensen]

>Otherwise I think it's a bitter-tasting money grab.

It's engineering laziness. Designing a phone robust against bad chargers is harder than designing a phone to work with one charger and putting DRM on it. It's the kind of thing markets can't do very much to solve which requires regulation, unfortunately, because there are too many bad actors.

[sannee]

If you assume faulty charger, you have to figure out a way of dropping at least 5 extra watts of heat somewhere in your phone. That seems practically impossible without significantly compromising on mechanical properties of your device.

[leetcrew]

i get that this is theoretically inconvenient for you, but how big of a problem is this really? afaik, most people don't wirelessly charge their phones, even if they have capable devices, and the pixel line tends to be pretty low volume to begin with.

given the small number of people that actually care and the possibly large cost of supporting full speed charging on a wider range of chargers, I'm not sure this is a problem at all, let alone one that merits new regulation.