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by NovemberWhiskey 1026 days ago
I agree with the principle here, if not necessarily the tone ... I don't think I've used an iPhone cable to do anything other than a) charge or b) use CarPlay for probably 10 years at least.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that providing a "real" USB 3 cable for charging would not give most users what they want.

I have two USB-C cables plugged into the MacBook Pro on the desk I'm using right now. One does USB PD and also provides monitor connectivity - that's obviously a "full fat" Thunderbolt cable. The other is a Lightning cable that I need occasionally to charge my keyboard/trackpad.

The Thunderbolt cable would be a terrible phone cable. It is thick, bulky and does not want to bend - mostly because it's designed to have good signal integrity at 10Gb/s+.