[freehunter]

Luckily space exists for devices using USB-A and devices using USB-C, and making cables with A at one end and C at the other is trivial enough that many cables exist like this.

Two compatible cable standard is easy to handle. The hard part comes when you have USB-A, USB-C, Lightning, Micro-USB, and Mini-USB all competing. Trying to keep enough of each type of cable on hand gets to be pricy.

[digi_owl]

Cables that are hell bent on breaking something, because of the damned resistors everyone gets wrong.

[lmm]

Mini-USB is dead, and micro-USB/USB-A are opposite ends of the cable - they don't get used for the same thing. I'm guessing Lightning must be some weird one-manufacturer proprietary thing, in which case they deserve to be punished for their antisocialness.

So you really don't need that many cables. C-to-C, C-to-mini, and A-to-C will do you.

[freehunter]

I wouldn’t say the iPhone is something that easily forgotten.