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Are they going to ditch it though? As I understand, they don't need to ditch it as long as USB-C charging remains an option.
For charging alone, Magsafe is objectively the better choice because it snaps in and out of place, so it's both easier to insert and won't pull your laptop off the living room table if your kid or dog runs into the cable. For docking in your dedicated workspace, you'll still use USB-C attached to your monitor of course, it's excellent for that and Magsafe doesn't do data.
Yeah, I think it says that you have to support USB-C charging. But you can add whatever else you want. And if I remember correctly, macbooks can be charged via C and magsafe already. So all up to snuff
Yup, both work!
The regulation is the same as for smartphones. In the EU, laptops must charge with USB-C by default. Apple can still include on the laptop a magsafe port which will be useless for the consumer in this area. The easiest to comply for Apple is to put a USB-C to USB-C cable instead of the USB-C to magsafe for Europe.