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Comment by gjsman-1000 | Hacker News Reader

Actually, that MagSafe is really cool. The fact that you can basically stick your iPhone anywhere magnetically is awesome.

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Even though "Android had it X years ago" is mostly a meme by now, I can't resist: The Nexus 5 had magnets that automatically aligned it on a Qi charging dock 7 years ago.

Oh! Oh! Oh! I want to play. The Palm Pre had a magnets to align wireless charging 11 years ago.

I was sure that the Nexus 5 was probably not the first one, and someone was going to come along to provider older examples :P

I was surprised that the iPhone didn't already have it in the last generation, given that accurate alignment is a well known problem with wireless charging and magnets are a well known solution. Maybe they kept it back on purpose just to have a new feature for this release and/or sell another round of charging accessories.

The Palm Pre looked very interesting. I wanted one. Unfortunately, it didn't have the panache that Apple's products have.

I forgot about that! The Palm Pre series was amazing. WebOS itself was questionable but the hardware was some of the best in the 2000s.

I had a Palm Pre .. didn't have the wireless charger though:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/every-cellphone-i-have-ever-o...

I absolutely loved my palm pixi for this reason in 2011. Had to wait 6 years for wireless charging again...

Here's an even easier one, Apple had them as early as 2006! But then pulled them, even though everyone loved them... and now are reintroducing it as new

Eh, I mean Apple's entire business has been to do what others are doing, but 10x better.

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