First Click: pulling off a magnetic headphone adapter
Mexican jumping beans and magnets are the most magical things I can recall from childhood. I’m talking real magic, the fantastical truths contained in biology and physics, not the slick trickery of a Vegas hack. I would study them for hours, mystified in their wonder.
I felt the same sense of awe when Steve Jobs unveiled the MagSafe connector in 2006. But this time it was accompanied by an inaudible “duh” — of course laptop power cables should be connected by magnets as a way of preventing accidents. But not just MacBooks, Microsoft’s Surface would ultimately adopt a magnetic connector. Pebble watches, too, and soon the Apple Watch. But not headphones, even now when much of the world dangles $600 smartphones from a white rubbery thread….
Source:: The Verge
