I know I’m late to the party, but I’ve finally achieved something quite satisfying: a house with only USB-C cables. Phone, tablet, laptop, headphones, earbuds, power bank, etc. Even my kitchen scale has joined the revolution. No more hunting for the right cable, no more “Wait, does this one fit the headphones or the tablet?” Just one cable to rule them all. The transition period is finally over!

Unnecessary details:
Here are some of the possible scenarios I considered:

  1. Always buy new. The annoyance would have started in 2018 with the first iPad with USB-C and finally ended in 2023 with the iPhone 15. That would have been five years of cable chaos. No thanks! Over the years, there would have been gradual steps toward USB-C as more devices switched, and eventually, I would have had only one Lightning cable for my phone. Avoiding that frustration was the goal of this planned cable transition.

  2. Always buy used. Stick with the older buds and iPads as long as possible. As soon as the iPhone 15 became reasonably cheap, switch all the devices at once. It’s a lot cheaper than option 1, and it minimizes the frustration period.

In reality, though, the transition period actually started much earlier than that, because I did have a few USB-C electronics long before 2018. For example, my work phone and my proper headphones started using USB-C very early. Fortunately, they didn’t need to be charged frequently, so the cable annoyance was minimal.

Over the years, I’ve also accumulated quite a few USB-C cables, but I never really put them to use. After all, I had only a few devices, and they didn’t even need frequent charging. Nowadays, though, everything comes with the same universal port, which means I can finally start using those old cables that have been sitting in a cable box all these years.