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I think it's recognizing the (at least true for me) reality that I have practically an entire box of wall-to-usb power adapters.

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Wall-to-USB-C?

Just buy a new Macbook, it comes with a USB-C charger. :)

But you can't plug that into the iPhone. Because the phone has lightning port. And the other end of the included cable is USC-C male. And all previous adaptors (the white box that goes on the wall) are USA-A. So yeah... no cookie.

The Macbook charger has a brick with a female USB-C end, and a male-to-male USB-C cable. Which you can unplug from the brick and plug in the USB-C-to-lightning cable, in theory.

Now if you need to charge both, and you have the one-port Macbook, you're SOL. If not, you can plug the phone into the laptop...

Good solution to boost Macbook sales then, I guess.

Well, I do hope the proposal to buy a Macbook so you can charge your phone was tongue-in-cheek. Because that's a pretty daft solution compared to buying https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHJA3AM/A/20w-usb-c-power... for $19 if one doesn't have an existing USB-C brick.

I have at least three but if you don't why not just buy one and be set for the next eight or so years? It does seem like a huge waste that every device in the foreseeable future will ship with a new USB-C charger that is quite redundant.

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