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Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by _jal on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @09:55PM (#37491254)
Missing the point.

Power-only cables should be specified to have a different connector. Vastly different speeds should have a different connector. It should be physically impossible to stick the wrong kind of cable in.

Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by cchance on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @10:34PM (#37491526)
That ... wouldn't be USB lol, if every version has a different connector it's not... universal lol
Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by brianpan on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @10:42PM (#37491582)
I think you might be missing the point. Power and data in the same cable is a huge advantage of USB-C (both Apple connectors had power and data in the same cable).

Third parties will make out-of-spec cables no matter what. Some of the ways that Apple has addressed this is the "Made for" program which goes back even to the iPod. And the devices themselves detecting and showing an "Accessory may not be supported" error message, again going back to the iPod.

Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by ninkendo on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @10:58PM (#37491688)
There is no spec for power-only USB-C cables. Anyone making one is doing so against the spec. You can’t use a spec to solve the problem of going against the spec.
Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by kalleboo on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @02:28AM (#37492918)
So now my phone needs 4 different ports on it for all the different capabilities it has?