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Re:What Finally Killed AirPower by darkpuma on Friday March 29, 2019 @11:59PM (#19527648)
I can get an Amazon Basic's brand USB-C cable for $4.17 per meter. Apple sells theirs for $19 per meter.

Is Apple selling these cables at cost, or are they making a profit from them? Amazon isn't a brand I trust either, but from the magnitude of that difference I'm pretty sure Apple is making a tidy profit on these cables. I don't think Apple is a trillion dollar company because of cable sales, but from where I sit it sure seems like Apple is a company that loves nickel and diming people even though they don't need to.

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Re:What Finally Killed AirPower by dodobirdlord on Saturday March 30, 2019 @01:07AM (#19527887)
The USB-C standard is arcane and cables can have wildly different functionality and quality and still comply with the standard. Occam's razor suggests that there is not some cable markup conspiracy going on here. Higher quality cables + luxury brand tax is a far more reasonable solution.
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Re:What Finally Killed AirPower by NickNameNick on Saturday March 30, 2019 @02:38AM (#19528131)
Apples cables don't have to implement the entire USB-C spec. Only the parts that apple want to use.
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Re:What Finally Killed AirPower by darkpuma on Saturday March 30, 2019 @12:14PM (#19530157)
> "+ luxury brand tax"

Well that's the contention isn't it? Whether that tax is present, and whether the mechanical build quality justifies it.

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