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Lighting still has a "tooth" (actually two) on the socket side. The choice of keeping the teeth in the connector for USB-C is intentional, the idea is for the w

Lighting still has a "tooth" (actually two) on the socket side. The choice of keeping the teeth in the connector for USB-C is intentional, the idea is for the wear to be in the connector and not the device. You also don't need a 30$ cable for 90W, any cable that is rated for 5 amps will do the job.

gumby 5y ago
> wear to be in the connector and not the device. I think this was a typo and you meant to say “cable connector (plug), not device connector (socket)”. It’s a good design and specifically designed to avoid a USB mini A design botch in which the device side would wear out before the cable side did. FWIW Apple is a USB member and participated in the USB-C design, including learning from lightning (which was comtemporaneously secretly under way). This is like Intel and IEEE-754