[yellow_postit]

That may be the spin but ultimately it’s about the peripheral licensing fees for Apple.

The new MagSafe charging breaking comparability with existing items in practice due to making alignment harder is such a cynical moneygrab.

[djrogers]

MagSafe doesn’t break compatibility with any qi chargers, and you have the difficulty of alignment issue backwards. MagSafe is easier to align - that doesn’t mean magnetless qi is made worse.

[yellow_postit]

Alignment is easier with MagSafe 2 MagSafe but aligning on Qi chargers is significantly harder. As one example automotive qi chargers, often in the center console, are regularly cited on automotive forums (in my experience) as not working with newer Apple products due to the more challenging alignment.