[CubsFan1060]

I will basically immediately throw away about a dozen cables and need to buy new ones. I'm unclear on how I'm gaining in this.

[hotpotamus]

You've somehow avoided USB-C cables? That's confusing to me since I have an iPhone and other Apple devices. My phone uses lighting but my Beats earbuds, My Macbook Pro, and my iPad pro use USB-C for charging. Plus plenty of other non-Apple devices.

[CubsFan1060]

Not at all. I have like a dozen lightning cables in various places (work, many places in my home, my car). I have 2-3 USBC cables.

So, now I'll have to replace the one in my car (with, I guess, a usbA to usbC cable?), I'll have to replace the ones all around my house.

Unless you are suggesting that I should only charge my phone in the one room with my Mac?

[hotpotamus]

Yes, I suppose if you want to charge your phone in a dozen locations, and you want a separate cable for every location, that will be what you need to do. It doesn't seem like a major hardship to me, having lived through a few connector changes, like the 30-pin to lightning switch, but I suppose it may be more of an issue for others.

[CubsFan1060]

It's just back to my point. This change will cause me to throw away a significant amount of cables (some over 5 years old). That's a decent amount of waste.

[hotpotamus]

Really? I consider myself pretty economical, but I throw out much more than a few lightning cables worth of waste in a given week (probably more on any day even). Would they even really be noticeable in your trash can?

[CubsFan1060]

If your argument is “you already throw away so much stuff that it doesn’t matter”, then what’s the point of the law in the first place?