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I feel the same way. Imagine how Steve Jobs would feel if he found out you could go to an Apple store, buy a Macbook and an iPhone, and still have to buy an additional cable to connect them together!


You don’t. Anything you need to do can be done via iCloud.

Also the newest generation comes with a usb-c to lightening port.


No, Steve would correctly point out that the supplied cable isn’t for connecting to a computer, it’s to charge the phone or dock with a car.

Connecting an iPhone to a Mac is a niche activity these days, and anyone who needs to do that surely understands what USB-A and USB-C are.


"The future's USB-C! Convert!"

"So, the iphone charging cable will connect to USB-C?"

"What, are you crazy? Literally everything is USB-A."


You think that’s bad, you should’ve seen the work I had to do to plug my Model 3 into my Model S.


He would wonder why they need a physical cable to connect at all.


To charge, if you forget, misplace, or just don't want to carry your phone charger brick.


The iMac caught so much flak for omitting the floppy drive.


It's be less ridiculous if the iphone didn't come with a USB cable. It did, though, just the "wrong" one (I understand from elsewhere in the thread they've finally fixed that, however).


He'd probably be satisfied knowing that a significant fraction of iPhone users never connect their phone to their computer.




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