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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by macintux on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:20PM (#13538201)
As I understand it, there's a pretty significant tradeoff involved. If you want a USB-C cable that does everything, you're going to pay a lot more and get something that's much thicker than you need to, say, charge an iPhone.

So yes, ideally all Apple cables would do everything imaginable, but I understand why they didn't choose to do that.

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Re:Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results by m_mueller on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:58PM (#13538393)
But that's the thing, they don't even use it to charge iPhones, and your argument would be one for them to keep lightning, which seems like a fine connector to me. But Apple has been pushing USB-C on personal computers, and there IMO they should just have waited and then jumped on the first solution that does everything.
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