When Apple first introduced TB I use to think it was just their own thing and nobody would care, although its still not widely accepted, I picked up a pair of cables today from apple for 49.99
and had like 65gb of data on the original CTO 13 AIR 2012 and had to put it on the new replacement machine n time remaining on wifi was like 16 hours or something NUTS, on TB it was like 6 minutes, this is HUGE leaps and bounds for people who have large amounts of data. I was amazed! $50 for the wires is nuts though. Too bad they don't have thunderbolt external hard drives!