iPhone sales are 10x that of iPad and MacBooks combined.

But it's not like sales of the MacBook cratered after the switch to C. There was hardly a blip. So no blowback.

You must not have been here for years that people whined about the MacBook getting rid of MagSafe and how it only had USB-C ports. How quickly we forget. "No blowback" is the completely opposite of the truth. Consumers aren't going to give a shit what some foreign government mandated, they're going to be pissed at Apple that they need to buy all new cables.

> Consumers aren't going to give a shit what some foreign government mandated, they're going to be pissed at Apple that they need to buy all new cables.

For sure, but only if Apple wouldn't provide such cables, which they do.

Currently, cables bundled with iPhones are Lightning to USB-C. It has been like this for several years.

I suspect that the kind of person who would buy a new $1,000+ phone with an USB-C to USB-C cable in the box, and bitch and moan about the $30 worth of Lightning cables about to end in the trash, is the same who vociferously complain on the Internet and then still buy the next years version.

I know there was some blowback online but the reality is that it was just a vocal minority, otherwise again, we would see the actual sales impact.

My impression has always been that, at least online, there was quite a bit of criticism to Apple for switching to USB-C so soon. Or was it because now dongles were needed?

iPhones have come without chargers for a few years now.

Ironically enough, they come with a Lightning to USB-C cable. Users would need to buy their own USB-C chargers anyway.

And here we are, arguing about cables.