<story><title>Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/update-on-supply-of-iphone-14-pro-and-iphone-14-pro-max/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wwweston</author><text>Back in late April&amp;#x2F;early May I was doing some travel and realized I had totally forgotten my 96 W charger for my work Macbook Pro at home. &amp;quot;Well,&amp;quot; I thought, &amp;quot;no fun to spend my own cash on a new charger, but better than the disaster of losing capacity to work while traveling, guess I&amp;#x27;ll just pop into an Apple Store and pick one up.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They didn&amp;#x27;t have one. OK, I asked -- did they know anyone who did? &amp;quot;No clue, you might want to call Apple Support.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Doing so revealed that there were &lt;i&gt;none of these available anywhere&lt;/i&gt;, and the schedule on which they were projected to be available was early July.&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, I had two fallbacks:&lt;p&gt;(1) I was traveling in metro LA, which meant that I could check craigslist or FB marketplace or whatever and maybe a handful of 15mm Angelinos would have something up for sale.&lt;p&gt;(2) The MBP charged via USB-C so presumably I could find anything that could deliver 96W or thereabouts and use it.&lt;p&gt;Option #1 panned out, but it was still a flashbulb moment for me indicating that we&amp;#x27;re not exactly in familiar territory economically. It isn&amp;#x27;t just consumption goods that are sometimes scarce, this was a key piece of equipment the lack of which might have interrupted my productive capacity entirely or forced the cost&amp;#x2F;adaptation of entirely new substitutes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>radicaldreamer</author><text>One thing about USB-C PD is that you don&amp;#x27;t need the 96W charger or even an Apple charger to charge your MacBook. While you may miss out on &amp;quot;fast charging&amp;quot; at maximum speed, any USB PD compatible charger will charge your MacBook at the fastest speeds available based on compatibility, automatically.&lt;p&gt;Anker chargers work fairly reliably, are more easily available than Apple chargers (on Amazon etc.) and there are several options for 100W+ PD available.</text></comment>
<story><title>Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/11/update-on-supply-of-iphone-14-pro-and-iphone-14-pro-max/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wwweston</author><text>Back in late April&amp;#x2F;early May I was doing some travel and realized I had totally forgotten my 96 W charger for my work Macbook Pro at home. &amp;quot;Well,&amp;quot; I thought, &amp;quot;no fun to spend my own cash on a new charger, but better than the disaster of losing capacity to work while traveling, guess I&amp;#x27;ll just pop into an Apple Store and pick one up.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They didn&amp;#x27;t have one. OK, I asked -- did they know anyone who did? &amp;quot;No clue, you might want to call Apple Support.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Doing so revealed that there were &lt;i&gt;none of these available anywhere&lt;/i&gt;, and the schedule on which they were projected to be available was early July.&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, I had two fallbacks:&lt;p&gt;(1) I was traveling in metro LA, which meant that I could check craigslist or FB marketplace or whatever and maybe a handful of 15mm Angelinos would have something up for sale.&lt;p&gt;(2) The MBP charged via USB-C so presumably I could find anything that could deliver 96W or thereabouts and use it.&lt;p&gt;Option #1 panned out, but it was still a flashbulb moment for me indicating that we&amp;#x27;re not exactly in familiar territory economically. It isn&amp;#x27;t just consumption goods that are sometimes scarce, this was a key piece of equipment the lack of which might have interrupted my productive capacity entirely or forced the cost&amp;#x2F;adaptation of entirely new substitutes.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hamandcheese</author><text>You don’t need anywhere near the full wattage, you will just charge slower. I frequently get by with a 60W charger, and I’ve even charged with the USB ports in my car which I think are 30W max.</text></comment>