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There already are. Maybe not at the wall, but TO THE DEVICE? Which is where USB-C is now? yup. Some don’t even have a detachable cable, good luck trying to use the cable that comes with your desk lamp with the one that comes with your printer. :)

If the connection into a device is objectively inferior and blatantly anti-consumer, then I whole heartedly welcome any kind of resolution to resolve that, especially when the solution is right freaking there in front of the company to adopt. Its a shame that this same problem with desk lamps, etc can't be fixed so easily, but where a better solution that has already been adopted by the masses exists, aka USB-C, a regulatory push towards that cannot possibly be negative.

Hell, even Apple themselves sell more devices that charge with USB-C that with Lightning now. It's about damn time. Most governments are absolutely broken, but even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day. There are many nuanced issues I have with those in power, but if they can force Apple into making a decision they should've made years ago, I am completely cool with that.
 
That’s the thing, though, you WANT to see the cable fried. If the charger is doing something it shouldn’t do or if it’s not even the charger if the power has an odd spike, you want SOMETHING before the iPhone to go up in smoke. If it’s not the breaker and not the outlet and not the charger then better the cable than the phone.
That’s a ridiculous viewpoint. I mean, you’re not wrong that the cable frying is better than the device frying, but I haven’t had a single USB-C device get fried yet, or heard of one from anyone I know.
 
That’s a ridiculous viewpoint. I mean, you’re not wrong that the cable frying is better than the device frying, but I haven’t had a single USB-C device get fried yet, or heard of one from anyone I know.
If it’s an official MFi cable that got fried, then however it got fried, it got fried for the right reason. If it’s not MFi, of course, it fried just because that’s how it’s made.

FRAYED would be a completely different thing, though.
 
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