I don’t own a single usbc device, I have lightning on my phone, and tons of microusb-usbA devices/cables

“Billions” sounds like a HN bubble statement.

6 billion smartphone subscriptions worldwide (according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartph...), Android is about 70% (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide), and has been predominantly USB C for the past 5 years or so (eg Samsung S7, released in 2016, was their first phone with USB-C afaics). I don't think it's that far fetched.

According to Wikipedia the S7 was first released 2016-03-11. The Oneplus 2 was released on 2015-07-28 which was one the first with a USB-C port.

One of the big reasons for me getting the OP2 was the port and I'm still using it (with LineageOS). I'm sure I would have upgraded long ago if it didn't have a USB-C port as that's what I've standardised on for all my portable electronics.

Same applies in reverse.

I don't own a single lightning device, but everything (minus older devices) has usb-c. Even rechargeable battery inside a flashlight.

I think that’s where we are headed though. I used to have only microusb, but everything I bought in the past year has had usb-c.

So you cite a sample of N=1 and then claim than anything else must be from within a bubble? Interesting.

I’m at a hotel breakfast, so far this morning I’ve seen half a dozen usb-a sockets and not a single usb-c socket.

Majority of electronic devices are older than usb-c standard, even the electric screwdriver I bought two months ago was micro-usb, as is the shaver I used this morning. At work about half the low power devices are PoE or Micro-USB.

Aside from a few laptops USB-C is still rare.

That's still just anecdote. I have USB-C for one pair of headphones, two pairs of earbuds, a bedside light/charger, and of course my phone. But I don't assume my experience is universal. I look at data, as should you, and it does seem that there are indeed billions of devices out there using USB-C.

https://epsnews.com/2017/12/28/usb-type-c-adoption-keeps-gro...

Looks like phones alone account for ~3B in a single year, so no, it's not just laptops. Even if you exclude those, the "consumer electronics" segment looks like it'll go over 1B/year pretty soon. Get out of your bubble.

US bubble.

Not according to real data.

https://www.marketresearchblog.org/2021/09/22/usb-type-c-mar...

That seems to show that the US is a plurality, but not a majority, of USB-C shipments.