Yo my friend, you didn't understand a single word of my comment.
That may be my fault, so allow me to restate my point in more general terms:
Changing from one well-established standard to another one in the middle or late in its life cycle is HIGHLY wasteful because it will require billions of cables to be discarded and replaced with new ones for no practical gain.
This is NOT about a specific cable, technology or brand over another.
It's about the insanity of throwing out a couple of BILLION perfectly functional cables and accessories into the rubbish and calling that an environmentally friendly act.
The current USB-C/lightning standards only have a limited time left in them before they are replaced by something new. Forcing everyone to replace all their cables at this stage is madness and the opposite of environmentally friendly.
No I “heard” ya. You missed a few points.
“Environment” is a contextually meaningless term, and “friendly” is an attempt to garner emotion rather than make any technical point. Together they are used to push pseudo science than anything meaningful.
The cabling is indentical, what you’re really complaining about is the cable connectors.
Regardless this “environmentally friendly” worry/concern is simplistic and imaginary.
Nobody is going to upgrade cable types for a device unless it already has those ports. Old cables break down anyways, and even older devices need a supply of “new” cabling.
This changing supply need is already factored into manufacturing demand and old types are produced at slower rate and smaller yield compared to new standards that they replace. Also these new types don’t just start out at max volume, but ramp up over time as they replace the old ones.
And the larger point, Apple’s environmentalism is pure pageantry and a corporate distraction by a CEO with limited vision for the industry in which he works. But I guarantee he knows how to price out and source cable manufacturing for optimum profit returns. Ditto for cardboard packaging, and the more time Tim Cook wastes emoting over saving a few nickels, the more Apple languishes in key areas, like software quality.