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Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive (www.theverge.com)

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The switch to USB-C is good! Except for all the dongles you’ll need to get there.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The premise of the article is you buying an adapter from Apple to make your old stuff work with the new phone and highlighting how ridiculously priced they are. It's not a lie, as this is the actual price of the adapter. Sure, you can buy third-party stuff just like you can buy a phone from a different manufacturer and avoid the issue altogether, but that's obvious, no?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

Not talking about an adapter, but a simple usb-c to usb-c cable with usb 3.2 standard, They are basically wothless. I have a about 30 of them sitting in a box at the office.

There is simply no reason why you would need an expensive thunderbolt 4 cable to charge a phone or transfere data at 10Gbps. Either these "journalists" are lying or they don't understand USB.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

A) you obviously glossed over (or intentionally omitted) the very next paragraph when you quoted the article in your original comment.

(I should remind you here that the beauty of USB-C is that Apple’s not the only company in charge of it. There are tons of cables out there, and for most people, there’s no reason you should need the mega-fast ones anyway. Just get the charger that matches your charging speed and your wall plug, and you’re golden.)

B) if this product had no use, Apple wouldn't have spent money manufacturing it.

C) if this cable is useless, what cheaper alternative does Apple offer that is capable of giving you both fast charging speed and fast data transfer speed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This cable is for stuff like docking stations for laptops with multiple 4K displays

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's true but Apple doesn't offer any alternative cable apart from "charging cables."

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