Would be nice if Apple would lower the price of their USB-C / Magsafe-3 cable. Mine is broken in just 6 months. Not sure if it's covered under Apple Care. Currently it's priced at $49 / € 55.
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Apple Selling New 60W and 240W USB-C Woven Charge Cables
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Sooooo they got rid of the 100w USB C charging cable for macs and now offer a lower 60w version for......... im not sure since even a macbook air is 70w.... so that cable wont even power it fully... or go for the overkill 240w version that no macbook can take advantage off since USB C ports are still 100w max only. Meanwhile apple recommends buying their overkill thunderbolt 4 cable at $69 in order to get USB 3 speeds on the new iphone pro.... Man they really went all out on anticonsumer train.
The 7 people that still physically plug in their phones are very upset. lol.
Edit: I've found 4 of the 7 so far.
Edit: I've found 4 of the 7 so far.
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That's either a reasonable price or a misprint.
Reasonable price because it probably takes 10x as long as the Anker ones to fall to bits.
Reasonable price because it probably takes 10x as long as the Anker ones to fall to bits.
...well, yes, it would need to be if you're going to pump 240W - 5A at 48V - down it.
...and the point that some people are missing is that to also make it USB 3 capable they'd need to squeeze 4 (or 8 for full USB 3.2x2 or USB 4) more wires in there.
I am completely lost here. As someone who hasn’t plugged my iPhone in to transfer data in several years, do I need to care about this?
...and that's always been the downside of USB-C. You may be able to invent "one connector that does it all" but it turns out that the idea "one cable that does it all" is magical thinking.
Yes, there is some price gouging going on but if you're expecting nice, thin, light and flexible cable than can deliver 240W alongside 8 wires carrying high-speed serial data - and is still cheap enough to bundle with, say, a $50 SSD - it turns out that the laws of physics have a say, too, and you have to start making design tradeoffs.
Come on now. We at Apple are saving the 20gbs for the iPhone 16 Pro & the 40gbs for the iPhone 17 pro so you all can upgrade
Trial and error just like it's always been. I have two USB-C cables; the one that came with my iPad Pro that supports fast charging and the junk one that came with an 8Bitdo game controller for the many devices I own that aren't properly USB-C compliant and don't recognise anything decent.
No. The cable that comes in the box is capable of fast charging so as long as you pair it with a decent wattage power brick, you're all good.
I’ll second the other reply. It’s going to be trial and error. A good bet is if it’s some random relatively thin cable, it’s just USB 2.0 speeds and is mainly for power.
What I’m doing is buying cables that I know the capabilities of and getting rid of the rest.
Why doesn’t Apple have a USB-A to USB-C cable for places like our cars? They don’t even have a 3rd party cable for sale.
No one has mentioned this, but the 60W cable is NOT new. It is the exact same cable that has been shipping with iPad Pros. Maybe other products, but that's the only one I can directly speak to. It is marked 'new' in the store because it is newly back in stock - as of yesterday they were unavailable (I verified this with Apple chat because I was confused by the 'new' marking). The 240W cable is of course an actual new product.
Yeah, it's super confusing, especially since it's supposed to be a "Universal" Serial Bus. And why is the latest version USB 4 2.0 and not just USB 5?
I know *some* newer after market car radios/head units come with USB-C, but not many. Plus, many extension cables are just USB-A
I am so goddamn tired of USB-C cables that are limited to USB 2.0 capabilities.
The USB-C spec should have NEVER allowed that. Seriously, what the hell were they thinking???? How many PENNIES does that save to the manufacturing cost anyway?!!
The worst thing with it is that at least with USB-A and B, a simple glance at the connector could immediately tell you if the cable is 3.0 capable. But with USB-C? NOPE.
The USB-C spec should have NEVER allowed that. Seriously, what the hell were they thinking???? How many PENNIES does that save to the manufacturing cost anyway?!!
The worst thing with it is that at least with USB-A and B, a simple glance at the connector could immediately tell you if the cable is 3.0 capable. But with USB-C? NOPE.
The only one here to blame is Apple which is putting proprietary tech into the connector to prevent anyone with standard cables that don‘t contain Apple‘s chosen proprietary Thunderbolt interfaces to be hamstrung.
It left companies with free choices of how to use the connector. We all know what happened when Apple made its choices. Far from beautiful and environmental-friendly, not to mention consumer-friendly.
Typical bean-counting behaviour of milking customers, but is anyone ever surprised?
I hate not knowing what a cable is capable of just by looking at it.
This is very bad user experience design.
This is very bad user experience design.
