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Two different things with the same connector, and with the Thunderbolt cable easily able to take on all responsibilities of a USB-C cable, means they aren’t tha

Two different things with the same connector, and with the Thunderbolt cable easily able to take on all responsibilities of a USB-C cable, means they aren’t that different. A Thunderbolt cable basically is a overpowered USB-C cable at the end of the day. I suggest you find a better resource or stop playing semantics.

izacus 3y ago
> Two different things with the same connector, and with the Thunderbolt cable easily able to take on all responsibilities of a USB-C cable, means they aren’t that different. That is... not actually true. Let's ignore the fact that Thunderbolt cable will probably be 2-5x more expensive and thicker. But as soon as you get past a certain very short length (~0.5m), it'll need active amplification and those active repeaters tend to not support alt modes properly and have issues with certain USB3.2 devices as well - making them outright worse or even non-functional when used with non-Thunderbolt devices (which is most of devices - the Thunderbolt chipsets are staggeringly expensive). But sure, scroll down and tell the person that's asking for a CarPlay cable to buy a 130$ cable to connect their USB2.0 phone to USB2.0 car for a USB2.0 protocol :)