Edit: see comments for clarifications.

I am probably late on this one, but god damn this is one nasty trick by Philips.

Context; I recently decided to upgrade my shaver, from a Philips One Blade to Philips an all-in-one-trimmer-7000. As you can see on the pictures below, they changed the charger for the adapter by maybe 1–2 millimetres, just so the old charger could not be used by the old charger. Now, this normally isn’t a big deal, but with the new trimmer, the charger is USB-A only. Where’s the previous one had the plug on it instead. To me this is mildly infuriating as I know need to get an extra adapter just to charge my shaver in the bathroom. They had the exact same design for the chargers, yet changed it just slightly so they wouldn’t be able to be reused? Why… Philips… why?

Edit: many good points in the comments! I don’t know how to manually check the voltage, but seems like folks figured it out in the comments too. Should have just been USB-C!

  • Echo DotEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    Isn’t the standard a token amount of $1 or something for a license, I don’t think price really comes into it.

    • Donut@leminal.spaceEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I imagine manufacturing USB C chargers is still more expensive than the shit we had 20-30 years ago, which you’ll find in the cheapest appliances

    • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      8 months ago

      USB-IF only chargea for VID. You can use USB as charging port without any fees. Even with USB PD.