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"No that iPad uses USB-C, you can't use a lightning cable to charge it". As an iPad pro owner, I can confirm that not every USB-C cable or charging brick or US
by neither_color 4y ago
"No that iPad uses USB-C, you can't use a lightning cable to charge it".
As an iPad pro owner, I can confirm that not every USB-C cable or charging brick or USB outlet can charge an iPad either, and there's no shady MFi business involved. USB-C is a mess. If you had 5 USB-C cables and a lightning cable before and you were mad about that, you're going to have 6 USB-C cables now. One cable for everything is a myth/fantasy. My Quest 2 needs a special USB-C LINK cable. My monitor needs a special USB-C cable that can do 4K HDMI at 120hz(not all of them can!). My eGPU needs a USB-C cable with thunderbolt 3/4.
- rektide 4y agoThis comment seems delusionally weird-world to me. Yes there are different USB-C cables. Official ones all support at least 5Gbps USB3 and 60W charging. Unofficial ones sometimes dump the USB3 and only have USB2.0 connections, which is a messy complication, but it's advertised pretty clearly from what I've seen. There is so much fear-mongering going on, to convince folks USB-C is evil & awful & horrible. It mostly just works. You don't need a lot of cables: you need a regular USB-C cable and one expensive 40Gbps cable for special purposes.
- neither_color 4y agoI don't believe it's fear mongering to accurately point out that the convenience of mandating USB-C is oversold using real examples from devices I own. Ultimately, people end up needing device specific cables or permanently connected cables with specific features. Another example: A gaming laptop that can be charged via USB-C at 100W PD but needs its own 240W power brick with proprietary tip to take full advantage of the GPU. If "USB-C charging" were a selling point I'd be disappointed.