In 2009, Palm introduced the Touchstone with the Pre. The core idea was simple but striking: magnets snap the phone into alignment while inductive charging begins. Eleven years later, Apple delivered MagSafe on the iPhone 12 line. Both share the same fundamental premise—magnetic alignment plus wireless charging—but the execution diverged dramatically.
Where Touchstone relied on an angled rest that the phone leaned against, MagSafe uses a flat puck, plus a growing ecosystem of stands, mounts, an