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I share this opinion. I'm deep in the Apple camp but it never bothered me that they didn't jump on USB standards. They are a complete mess and if I plugged a shoddy cable into my device and fried it I would be super pissed at Apple for putting me in a position to make that mistake.

I don't charge my recent generation MacBook with anything other than the Apple charger for this exact reason.

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How is a poorly made cable Apple's fault? Apple could make a proprietary connector with an apple shaped plug on each end. Yet you could still end up with a dead device because someone made a cheap clone cable with an internal fault that shorted the data line to power.

The cable is not Apple's fault. One of the reasons I like the Apple ecosystem is that I trust that they protect me from insanity like this. It's probably inevitable that they go all-in on USB in some form or fashion, but I hope they resist until it's impossible for me to *destroy my hardware* by plugging in a cable.

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