02-03-2017, 03:14 PM
DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
[quote=DeusxMac]
[quote=freeradical]
I think you need to define what you believe a dongle is. Plugging in your phone to me does not qualify as a dongle. Nor does a USB hub for a desktop computer. To me, a dongle is something that translates one protocol to another, especially for laptops.
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As discussed in an earlier thread, a cable with two different flavors of the same interface fittings on each end (like USB-C and USB-A) is not a "dongle".
To convert Thunderbolt to HDMI or Ethernet, that would take a "dongle"
So how do you plug in an iPhone? To my knowledge they still ship with a USB cable. Sure you can swap that for a usb-c to lightening, right? But the charger is still regular usb so you either have to haul two cables around, or a dongle.
Is there some reason your iPhone wouldn't charge when it was connected to a USB-C Mac?
Or you could get one of these...
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Charge-Type..._5?ie=UTF8&qid=1486128927&sr=8-5&keywords=USB-C+charger
https://www.amazon.com/Charger-Tronsmart..._2?ie=UTF8&qid=1486128926&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=USB-C+charger&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Type-C-5-Po..._3?ie=UTF8&qid=1486128927&sr=8-3&keywords=USB-C+charger
etc., etc., etc.
In a car, next to a bed... There's many times one might want to charge but isn't near a Mac. Buying new wall and car chargers doesn't seem any better than buying dongles or extra cables.