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Do you use anker MagSafe products? How are they?
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Anker was bought a while back, and now most of their products are the same generic internals to everything else on the market. Sadly it's just e-commerce roulette to see if you get the dud chipset or if you're the lucky winner of a mostly functional product.
(the biggest offender here are USB hubs. Literally every single on on amazon (that isn't for a server rack) has exactly the same components just with a slightly different pcb layout)
edit: Here's a wonderful article wherein a nerd slowly loses their mind over this issue
That explains a lot! I didn’t know that. Do you know when?
According to some brief googling, they were bought by continum in july 2021
Thanks for that
I mean, I'm sorry to be the one to bear the bad news about yet another once-decent brand being thrown into the pit of private equity.
Well it’s expected