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USB-C male to Lightning Male though?

The Apple charger I got with my Macbook Air is the only charger with usb-c female I've ever had. USB-A male to Lightning male or USB-C female to Lightning male would probable be better.

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Yes, like almost every cable, male to male. Also almost every USB-C charger is female.

But it’s not though, most laptops and most phones seem to have come with a usb-c male connector for years.

Almost all modern chargers utilize USB-C female, at least from the major brands (Anker, Ugreen etc.)

Almost all cables have either USB-C male to USB-C male, or USB-C male to something else.

Yet I have a variety of usb-c chargers which are not like this, that have a male end only. They are for phones for laptops, for my Switch, for a variety of things.

Can you post a link to any of those products?

A USB charger that is male would be so unusual, I can't even imagine what it would physically look like.

Do you have a nintendo switch? The one that comes with it is like that - https://store.nintendo.com.au/au/nintendo-switch-ac-adapter....

See also Lenovo laptop chargers - https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/accessories-and-software/char...

I have a bunch of things like this around the house. I'm not trying to deny the existence of usb-c female power adapters, but IMHO they are a more recent phenomenon than usb-a female power adapters, and the male-ended usb-c power adapters that ship with many devices.

I'm not trying to justify whatever's going on in Brazil, but usb-c female to lightning or usb-a male to lightning would be generally easier to accomodate, for me. I also have (for instance) usb-a female sockets in the car.

Oh, I see what you mean now.

Those are chargers that have an integrated cable that of course ends in male.

I really didn't know those still existed. It seems like such atrocious design -- the vast, vast majority of consumer electronics has moved to separating the charger and cable when using USB, precisely so you can reuse chargers and replace worn cables. I'm pretty shocked Nintendo and Lenovo are so backwards on this. Is there really a significant cost savings or something for them? It's so user-hostile.

I have a charger like that, I bought it when USB C cables were extremely expensive. So buying a charger with an integrated cable saved me a lot of money.

I do have a lot of chargers with the female port right on them, but they’re all A ports

Both Lenovo and Nintendo did that initially because in the relatively early days of USB-C there had been quite a bunch of incorrectly produced USB-C cables on Amazone which kill your device.

Through it is without question pretty user hostile that they haven't updated their design wrt. this aspect in recent years.

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