Why the hell did apple use a standard USB cable to lightning cable with the new Apple TV… surely they should have bundled a USB-C to lightning???
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Why USB?
- Thread starter James Godfrey
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I can think of a few possible reasons
1) the Siri remote doesn’t require the higher power input that USB-C provides.
2) the vast majority of people probably don’t have USB-C inputs available just to charge a remote once in a while whereas they’ve more than likely got USB-A easily accessible (in my house for example all my wall sockets have USB-A inputs).
3) Apple have an excess amount of USB-A cables so as a cost saving exercise they’ve included one with the remote just to use up what they’ve got in storage.
1) the Siri remote doesn’t require the higher power input that USB-C provides.
2) the vast majority of people probably don’t have USB-C inputs available just to charge a remote once in a while whereas they’ve more than likely got USB-A easily accessible (in my house for example all my wall sockets have USB-A inputs).
3) Apple have an excess amount of USB-A cables so as a cost saving exercise they’ve included one with the remote just to use up what they’ve got in storage.