Charger no good no excuses

Hi,

If you want Apple to hear you, give them feedback here: Product Feedback - Apple

The original design included the six foot AC "extension cord" in the box, and users were free to use whichever they preferred. Various iterations of that design were released for a decade or more. It is only recently that the "extension cord" has been deleted from the box, essentially made "optional".

So the underlying design of these power adapters is 'with six foot cord'. If the little duck-head is not to your liking for any reason, use the pre-designed and intended six foot power cord. If you are not using the cord, you are not using the power adapter as designed -- you are using the 'shortcut' version, and from what you say, the shortcut is not working well for you

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Almost no one who responds here works for Apple. If a PC running Windows in a better solution for you, then by all means use a PC running Windows. That threat gets no traction here.

Best of luck with your PC. Be aware that PC chargers (all that I am aware of) come with the power brick attached to an extension cord, so you don't have the option, as you do with the Apple power brick, to use the extension cord or not.

If you're that dissatisfied, that's exactly what I recommend.

Nobody should be stuck with useless (to you) kit regardless of how advanced it is.