[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?

[hotpotamus]

I don't know that I had an argument, more of a question of if a couple of cables would even be noticeable as trash.

I'd say my argument is purely logistical - one less cable type would be quite a boon to me personally. I have a few lightning cables that only work with exactly one device that I own - my iPhone 11. I'm quite happy with my phone, and perhaps ironically for Apple, the best way they'd have to get me to replace it would be to make a new one with a USB-C port; it's the feature I'd most like at this point.

I'd also love to see touchid make a return, but I don't see that happening.