Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Proceeds to show pricing for a thunderbolt cable instead of USB 3.

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  • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can’t stoke outrage with honesty.

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• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I love a lot of Apple’s products, but their wires are easily the worst of the worst. They’re expensive and made to fall apart after like 6 months.

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  • coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m still using the cable that came with the 5s. What are you doing with the cables?

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    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The main predictor of cable wear is whether people are using the phone while the cable is attached.

      If you just leave it to charge they will last for u years. If you continue to use them while they are charging, life span of the cable is measured in weeks.

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    • Astroturfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ve had several fall apart from usual wear and tear. If you roll them up, pack them, run them on things, pull them in and out of bags/pockets etc they wear down pretty quickly compared to even mid range aftermarket cables. I have some nice baided cables Ive had for 10+ years. I can’t imagine and apple one lasting that. Unless it just sits plugged into an outlet all the time, any cable last forever like that.

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    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Connecting to my car’s head unit.

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  • lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gotta love the Macbook charger cables that wear down to exposed wires after a few years of normal use. Some will even give you a small sparky lightshow reminding you it’s time to be a consumer again!

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    • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      When I had a MacBook Pro with the 1st generation Magsafe, I went through 2 legit Apple chargers and 3 off brand ones in the 9 years I had the laptop. One of the off brand chargers even exploded! Well, a capacitor inside it exploded, but it was designed well enough that it didn’t damage anything else or catch fire.

      I’ve only ever had that one laptop, and I was using it in college so I was constantly plugging and unplugging it, so I have no idea how abnormal that cable use is.

      Magsafe is super cool, and it definitely saved my computer from certain death several times, but damn it sucked buying those expensive chargers. It would’ve been nice just to buy the cable, not the whole damn charger.

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    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I currently have an iPhone cable that is frayed at the neck of the iPhone connection end. It’s from repeated bending from completely normal use. I had to stop using it because it was actually making my iPhone hot and was having sluggish connection issues. This is now the 3rd cable to do this and that includes MacBook cables too.

      Apple intentionally makes them cheap because they’re such an easy moneymaker for them. I have tons of old cables from other devices that have never had this issue, so I know this isn’t some isolated thing and I’m somehow the stupid one in the scenario. Their cables are terrible.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My 2011 MacBook Pro is on her original charger… I don’t know how you all take such poor care of your stuff.

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    • June@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My 14” MacBook Pro has a braided MagSafe cable. It took way too long but they did finally fix that problem.

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• comador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  and yet people will still buy them.

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  • brihuang95@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apple fanboys are the definition of sheep

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    • Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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    • eskimofry@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem is that they have the money, we have just mouths

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    • HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It's ok, they're helping me power my index fund. xD

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  • Rustmilian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Brand name obsession is one hell of a drug.

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  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, yeah. I use Android because I hate Apple’s walled garden and smug attitude, but when I was shopping for a phone recently it kinda became clear how Apple has gotten their market share in North America.

    Android manufacturers simply refuse to use sensible naming schemes and many of the best Android phones aren’t available in the US at all. Not to mention a constant push to follow Apple up whatever blind alley they happen to be going in at the time. I’m still salty about headphones jacks.

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• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I simply can not fathom the obsession people have with Apple products when they so egregiously price gouge their customers.

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  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mac minis are $600.

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    • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A physically smaller Minisforum UM480XT with 16GB RAM and a 512GB SSD is $249.

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    • GigglyBobble@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And yet, people buy iPhones instead of 3 Mac minis.

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  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.astaluk.icu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not a fan of their MacOS based products, but I prefer iOS for the fact that I can rely on getting timely updates. For a good long while. That is not something that is generally true with Android. I’m fine with paying for that level of support.

    Last time I looked, no Android vendors provided close to the same level of support.

    That said, if I was a business and needed to field in house apps to mobile devices, everyone would be getting an Android device. Custom apps for iOS are a pain in the ass.

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• theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But if you want to really get all the juice in and out of your new iPhone, especially if you’re buying a 15 Pro or Pro Max, you’ll need the $69 Thunderbolt 4 Pro Cable

  I mean, that is an outright lie. There is nothing a TB4 cable would add over a USB 3.2 cable here.

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  • lustrum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hell it’s talking about juice, a £5 amazon basic USB PD cable with 2.0 speeds will support up to 65w (25w on iphone due to their own limits)

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  • LifeInOregon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, the linked article is manufactured FUD.

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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?

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    • theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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 phone or transfere data at 10Gbps. Either these journalists are lying or they don’t understand USB.

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• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This kind of dongle would be for Lightning accessories that plug into the phone, like headphones or speakers, where you can’t just swap out a cable because it’s built in. No more lightning port means those electronics would be useless for the new phones.

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  • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only cable I think I would need that I don’t already have would be a C-to-A cable to plug the phone into the car. My car doesn’t support wireless CarPlay.

    What lightning dongles do people use that they would need that adapter for?

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In other news: Water is wet

  Though it should be pointed out, this article is a little wonky. No iPhone needs a thunderbolt 4 charging cable.

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• kitonthenet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don't need any of these, I already have the USB-C cables for my laptop, that was the whole point of switching to USB-C. Also in the cover photo is that a USB-C to USB-C dongle? What use is that??

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  • ram@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah it’s a $29 USB-C to Lightning dongle

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    • kitonthenet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That's kinda dumb but also incredibly niche, prob low volume

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• Eggyhead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with something like this?

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  • Virkkunen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It isn't made by Apple, therefore it must be bad and probably will break your phone /s

    There's really nothing wrong with it, it's just that Apple knows they can charge anything for the silliest things and a wave of mindless consumers will buy without thinking

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  • trachemys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You probably won’t get full charging speed. An actual type-c cable gives higher watts than lightning.

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    • nathris@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I have a $2 USB C cable I got off of Ali that I use to charge my laptop at 65W. It’s rated for 100W but I have no way of testing it.

      It’s actually higher quality than any official apple cable I’ve used, although that’s a pretty low bar.

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    • Eggyhead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You probably won’t get full charging speed.

      Then why not just use a USB C cable?

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• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All this arguing aside, good job EU. Good legislation at work right there. Whether people claim it’s better or not everyone in the end wins. Single adapter used with all devices, single cable provided for charging and data transfers. Simplicity and eco friendly. Everybody wins, especially iPhone users since now they don’t have to deal with shitty cables costing 40$ which fall apart 3 months after purchase.

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