They do, just not from Apple.
Because you wouldn’t buy another one
Because crosstalk on 2 or 4 wires is way easier to deal with then on
2418 wiresWho’s got 24 wires?
USB C
Forgive the pedantry, but the USB-C standard is 18 wires (feeding 24 pins).
Dang, you are right.
You’re saying I need to shoot down a plane to get it’s tasty, tasty charging cables?
Are you saying they’re mistakenly reenforcing the parts that DON’T cause total failure?
I’m saying the only ones left are the super durable ones. All the weak/failed ones are gone. There were plenty of these cables that fell apart that we don’t remember that aren’t around today because they went in the trash. I remember several such cables in my own house growing up.
They also received far more abuse than usb cables. We don’t generally anchor one end of a usb cable and then walk around erratically for hours everyday within the range of the cable (and now and then pushing it) with the device on the other end of the cable.
Those cables _were_engineered for more abuse.
Well, the good ones were haha. All of them should have been, but there were some bargain bin ones out there that failed if you looked at them wrong.
No! I still shudder to think of how those phone cords stole my innocence of intractable topology problems.
I think anker makes good charging cable, i have one that is still doing good after 8 years of abuse, plus its really long
They do make coiled USB-C cables. I got one for my laptop on Aliexpress.
They can. But then you won’t have to keep giving them money.
Imo, it is about the durability of ports as well. You make cable too tough, you may damage the C port. And not everyone has the tools to fix it. Kinda the torx tradeoff, you destroy bits, but the impact drill and screws are fine. More “easily” recoverable damage at the cost of cables. They ain’t cheap though.
The cause is very likely just mundane - phone cord manufacturing supply chains disintegrated as landline phones themselves disappeared, so that kind of cabling just isn’t economical anymore to scale for commodity use. Deviating from standards is expensive.
