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Dock Charge of iPhone XS

Replace Dock Charge Iphone XS

Apple’s latest iPhones, the XS and XR, have been announced, and, once again, Apple has made the incredibly frustrating choice of including a USB Type-A Lightning cable and low-power 5W brick in the box instead of a USB-C cable and charger.

Apple hasn’t given an explanation on why it insists on selling its latest, greatest, and, in most cases, $1,000-plus smartphones with the same legacy cable it’s been including since Lightning was introduced back in 2012. Maybe it’s a simple matter of cost. Maybe the company is afraid of alienating customers with a new, unfamiliar cable.

But USB-C isn’t new or unfamiliar at this point, especially for Apple’s most loyal customers who have been stuck with it as their exclusive port choice on almost every single laptop Apple sells.

In 2015, when Apple made the switch on the 12-inch MacBook, and then further cemented that decision with 2016’s MacBook Pros, it was predicated on the fact that doing so would drive the rest of the industry forward by forcing people to use the new port. But years later, USB-C growth has still been agonizingly slow across the industry, and plenty of new products are refusing to put the port on their devices since adoption “just isn’t there yet.”

Apple is part of that problem: not including USB-C to Lightning cables further cements the fact that USB-C isn’t a “real” port standard. Why should accessory makers invest in USB-C if Apple won’t look at it as anything other than a side project?