> The ports and cables all have to support specific profiles, which are just getting more and more complicated, for specific features to work, and there is no v

> The ports and cables all have to support specific profiles, which are just getting more and more complicated, for specific features to work, and there is no visual indication at all of this. If you got a cheap cable (which people will do), you may suddenly find that maybe charging doesn’t work. Or maybe it melts. Ah, but then you should be incentivized to buy an Apple® Certified Cable™ (made 100% from organically grown coppers and hand-milled by crafty Chinese masters from a solid plastic core). Not that I would dare to suggest that the chaos is create on purpose or anything like that.