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by Gigachad 15 days ago
USB 2.0 cables can be thinner, more flexible, longer, and cheaper. You could decide to only ever use thunderbolt cables for everything, but you'd be paying $40-$100 for a cable as thick as a mains power cord and doesn't offer any benefit at all to charging your phone.

We need better labeling rather than making every single USB cable a 40gbit thunderbolt cable.