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The cables tend to cost the same, way more than the cost of manufacture.

If you're buying them in bulk on amazon, usb-c is still more expensive than lightning, but the vast majority of people tend to buy cables when they have either lost, forgotten, or broken their existing cables. Go to a shop at an airport or train station and they'll charge you £20 for a cable, and people but them.

The "apple tax" is irrelevant to the actual amount paid.



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