I fail to see how Apple's included "bundled accessories" for the iPhone and iPad are any different, in any way whatsoever, than a plethora of similarly positioned consumer products on the market that have a wide variety of optional or upgradable 0accessories. You are buying and paying for an iPhone or iPad and Apple is bundling: 1) a fully functional charger, 2) a charging cable, and 3) a set of headphones with your iPhone or iPad purchase. The bundled accessories may not be exactly to your liking or the best ones available that work with the device, but they do work and allow you to fully utilize the device that you have purchased. Can you pay more for a bigger, faster, or more versatile charger? Hell yeah. Can you buy a longer or more robust charging cable? Certainly. Can you pay more for a better and more high quality set of headphones? Yes you can. But you bought the bundle that says it comes with a 5W charger, short Lightning cable, and Lightning EarPods.
What is different about what Apple is doing than buying a desktop PC bundle that comes with a basic mouse, keyboard, speakers, and perhaps a 1080p monitor? Or a new Jeep that comes with 16" skinny little wheels and tires and no brush guard? If you buy a package deal at a certain price you get exactly what the manufacturer has decided to include in the packaged bundle for the price. You knew what was in the package when you bought it. It doesn't matter whether your PC's video card can support a 4K monitor if you bought a package that comes with 1080p monitor or if your iMac has 4 memory slots and came with only 2 of them filled or your Jeep is capable of mounting 21" off-road wheels/tires. Wishing or whining that the manufacturer should have included higher quality, higher performance, or higher priced accessories in the bundle you selected, because that's what you want, and at no additional cost to you, is a fanciful concept, but so is Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
I think a reasonable compromise, for economical and e-waste considerations, would be for Apple to offer customer-defined bundles, with the available higher performance and costlier accessories selectable up-front so you don't end up with "basic" accessories that land immediately in the junk drawer. But this starts to complicate the keep-it-simple approach that has allowed Apple to source massive numbers of new products into its distribution channel almost immediately after they are announced. Adding any additional variation to the process and optional bundling options to an already complex supply and distribution channel is only going to slow things down and drive up costs to consumers. But if customers are willing to accept delivery delays and a bigger hit on their wallet, why not allow them to do so?
I thought you needed an adapter 29W or higher to fast charge a compatible iPhone? This article from Apple does not include a 18W adapter as a recommended charger.
The lists of supported devices for the 30W and the 18W chargers are the same. I would guess Apple will be updating the kb article you posted in due time. What would be nice is if AI could repeat their Fast-charging tests with this new charger to see if there is a significant difference in charging times with the 18W vs the 30W. I can’t imagine there would be a big difference for the phone, but maybe for the iPads Pro. I would also like to see data for the gen 6 iPad; even though it doesn’t offer fast-charging it may get some improvement over the included 10W charger.
iPhone 8 and X models draw 12.48 W (5.2V at 2.4A). iPhone Plus models going back to the 6S Plus could draw about 10 W. So, if you want to go biggest bang for your money, you can get a 10W USBA charger for less than $10.
”Fast charging” is just a vacuous name companies and media use to say that this or that device can draw more power than the traditional USBA specification of 5 W (5V at 1A). Charging bricks have to be able to supply that right amps and volts to support whatever the device expects. In the case of the 18 W and 29 W, etc, USBC charging bricks, they have multiple output power that they can deliver. 5.2V x 2.4A = 12.5 W will be one of them, and that is what modern iPhones will use. iPads and Macs will use the higher output levels from Apple’s charging bricks, that correspond to the max draw of those devices.
Ie, an iPad won’t be drawing 60 W from Apple’s bigger charging bricks, just whatever the max an iPad can take, which is probably 18W for 2018 iPad Pros.
When using USB-C lightning cables iPhones starting with the 8 and X support 5v/3a for 15w and 9v/2a for 18w charging.
I don’t know if it is true and would like to see definitive proof, both on the charging brick and phone side.
I’ve only ever seen 8 and X models support 12.5W. If they support 18W, you could charge a 10.5 WHr X battery in 45 minutes, or get to 50% in 20 minutes. That’s definitely testable. I would bet a lot this 18W charger outputs 5.2V x 2.4A and that is what iPhones use, while only 2018 iPad Pros and probably the MacBooks can draw 18W.
No offense but have you been living under a rock? This is pretty common knowledge.
The vast majority of users get along fine w the 5W. I charge my iPhone overnight. Plug in at work or car when I'm low. Rinse and repeat.
That is not evidence at all; the vast majority of users use whatever comes in the box. By your standard, 5W is too much; since 3W will charge your iPhone overnight. Unfortunately cheap is slow, while most users of $1000+ iPhones place a premium on time and often charge their phones during the day.
I thought you needed an adapter 29W or higher to fast charge a compatible iPhone? This article from Apple does not include a 18W adapter as a recommended charger.
The lists of supported devices for the 30W and the 18W chargers are the same. I would guess Apple will be updating the kb article you posted in due time. What would be nice is if AI could repeat their Fast-charging tests with this new charger to see if there is a significant difference in charging times with the 18W vs the 30W. I can’t imagine there would be a big difference for the phone, but maybe for the iPads Pro. I would also like to see data for the gen 6 iPad; even though it doesn’t offer fast-charging it may get some improvement over the included 10W charger.
iPhone 8 and X models draw 12.48 W (5.2V at 2.4A). iPhone Plus models going back to the 6S Plus could draw about 10 W. So, if you want to go biggest bang for your money, you can get a 10W USBA charger for less than $10.
”Fast charging” is just a vacuous name companies and media use to say that this or that device can draw more power than the traditional USBA specification of 5 W (5V at 1A). Charging bricks have to be able to supply that right amps and volts to support whatever the device expects. In the case of the 18 W and 29 W, etc, USBC charging bricks, they have multiple output power that they can deliver. 5.2V x 2.4A = 12.5 W will be one of them, and that is what modern iPhones will use. iPads and Macs will use the higher output levels from Apple’s charging bricks, that correspond to the max draw of those devices.
Ie, an iPad won’t be drawing 60 W from Apple’s bigger charging bricks, just whatever the max an iPad can take, which is probably 18W for 2018 iPad Pros.
When using USB-C lightning cables iPhones starting with the 8 and X support 5v/3a for 15w and 9v/2a for 18w charging.
I don’t know if it is true and would like to see definitive proof, both on the charging brick and phone side.
I’ve only ever seen 8 and X models support 12.5W. If they support 18W, you could charge a 10.5 WHr X battery in 45 minutes, or get to 50% in 20 minutes. That’s definitely testable. I would bet a lot this 18W charger outputs 5.2V x 2.4A and that is what iPhones use, while only 2018 iPad Pros and probably the MacBooks can draw 18W.
Getting definitive data on an easily testable scenario is exactly why I suggested that AI update and expand this test
that they did back in early October with the iPhone 8. They presented the info in an easy to understand manner, and even though you can find calculated values from other sources or other tests on YouTube as-well-as other blogs as @payeco helpfully pointed out here:
I thought you needed an adapter 29W or higher to fast charge a compatible iPhone? This article from Apple does not include a 18W adapter as a recommended charger.
The lists of supported devices for the 30W and the 18W chargers are the same. I would guess Apple will be updating the kb article you posted in due time. What would be nice is if AI could repeat their Fast-charging tests with this new charger to see if there is a significant difference in charging times with the 18W vs the 30W. I can’t imagine there would be a big difference for the phone, but maybe for the iPads Pro. I would also like to see data for the gen 6 iPad; even though it doesn’t offer fast-charging it may get some improvement over the included 10W charger.
iPhone 8 and X models draw 12.48 W (5.2V at 2.4A). iPhone Plus models going back to the 6S Plus could draw about 10 W. So, if you want to go biggest bang for your money, you can get a 10W USBA charger for less than $10.
”Fast charging” is just a vacuous name companies and media use to say that this or that device can draw more power than the traditional USBA specification of 5 W (5V at 1A). Charging bricks have to be able to supply that right amps and volts to support whatever the device expects. In the case of the 18 W and 29 W, etc, USBC charging bricks, they have multiple output power that they can deliver. 5.2V x 2.4A = 12.5 W will be one of them, and that is what modern iPhones will use. iPads and Macs will use the higher output levels from Apple’s charging bricks, that correspond to the max draw of those devices.
Ie, an iPad won’t be drawing 60 W from Apple’s bigger charging bricks, just whatever the max an iPad can take, which is probably 18W for 2018 iPad Pros.
When using USB-C lightning cables iPhones starting with the 8 and X support 5v/3a for 15w and 9v/2a for 18w charging.
I don’t know if it is true and would like to see definitive proof, both on the charging brick and phone side.
I’ve only ever seen 8 and X models support 12.5W. If they support 18W, you could charge a 10.5 WHr X battery in 45 minutes, or get to 50% in 20 minutes. That’s definitely testable. I would bet a lot this 18W charger outputs 5.2V x 2.4A and that is what iPhones use, while only 2018 iPad Pros and probably the MacBooks can draw 18W.
No offense but have you been living under a rock? This is pretty common knowledge.
few of the tests include the iPad or use all Apple chargers and of course none of them include this particular, newly released charger. Additionally, as I'm a regular reader of AI (because they focus on Apple gear), I would like to have the information from my go-to source.
On paper, Apple's 18W charger should perform the same as any other 18W charger (from Anker, Belkin, etc.), but the fact that there is some difference in how Apple's devices charge with different brands of chargers seems to indicate Apple has included some "secret sauce" into their own chargers. Since there is a $20 difference between the 18W and 30W (and a $10 difference between the 12W and the 18W) it would interest me to know what, if anything, we get for that extra Jackson (or Hamilton).
I fail to see how Apple's included "bundled accessories" for the iPhone and iPad are any different, in any way whatsoever, than a plethora of similarly positioned consumer products[…]
The difference would be that Apple has never been in the business of being just any other option on a market where everything's basically just the same.
Including a 5W charger with a 1250 USD iPhone XS Max isn't just to include the basic model, but more akin to getting a laptop with a CD-ROM unit in it. It's just straight up outdated, and a bottleneck performance-wise.
The vast majority of users get along fine w the 5W. I charge my iPhone overnight. Plug in at work or car when I'm low. Rinse and repeat.
People had to charge their phone over night simply because by the end of the day it was very low on battery, and it took a long time to charge it; so people lay there in bed with a wired iPhone, with a cable that wasn't long enough for comfortable use.
User experience-wise it'd be a HUGE win if Apple included either an 18W charger, to allow the phones to quickly be topped up during the day, or a wireless charger.
It's not so much that the included charger does the job but that the charger has no place in the current phone world, much less the premium phone segment. It should have been retired long ago.
Having a $1,000 dollar that you have to adapt to to charge (overnight for example) when a far superior solution exists.
Apple is deliberately shipping 5W chargers knowing full well that that action will encourage users to pay even more to get a faster standalone option with all the flexibility it provides.
I fail to see how Apple's included "bundled accessories" for the iPhone and iPad are any different, in any way whatsoever, than a plethora of similarly positioned consumer products[…]
The difference would be that Apple has never been in the business of being just any other option on a market where everything's basically just the same.
Including a 5W charger with a 1250 USD iPhone XS Max isn't just to include the basic model, but more akin to getting a laptop with a CD-ROM unit in it. It's just straight up outdated, and a bottleneck performance-wise.
If what you say is true, why does Apple include crap earphones with every iPhone they sell, regardless of price? Heck, with the iPod Touch they don't even include the crap earphones with the remote control on the wire, but only a reduced functionality set. This is just how accessory bundling works and Apple is no different than anyone else on the market. What is different with Apple are the products like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The products that differentiate Apple from competitors are what matters, not the extra bits they throw in the box. I don't see fancy commercials with floating and gyrating images of 5W chargers backed by throbbing music.
few of the tests include the iPad or use all Apple chargers and of course none of them include this particular, newly released charger. Additionally, as I'm a regular reader of AI (because they focus on Apple gear), I would like to have the information from my go-to source.
On paper, Apple's 18W charger should perform the same as any other 18W charger (from Anker, Belkin, etc.), but the fact that there is some difference in how Apple's devices charge with different brands of chargers seems to indicate Apple has included some "secret sauce" into their own chargers. Since there is a $20 difference between the 18W and 30W (and a $10 difference between the 12W and the 18W) it would interest me to know what, if anything, we get for that extra Jackson (or Hamilton).
If you have an iPad Pro, you’ll need to verify that it can draw more than 18 W. For the 2018 iPad models, the 18 W charger (maybe either 9V at 2A or 6V at 3A) will work for obvious reasons. The iPad Pro needs to suppport, be able to draw, the power that that 30W charger can deliver. It may be that they will only draw 18W and therefore no need to buy the 30W.
Reviewers can simply clear this up by reading the max output V x A values that all companies are required to print on power supplies, and buying an in-line USB power meter. They don’t need to do charge time tests.
The 29W USBC charger will have something like this:
If you get the 29W USBC charger from Apple for your iPhone or iPad, odds are pretty good that they will draw from the 5.2V x 2.4A = 12.5W output profile. So, I wouldn’t recommend buying this for iPads unless it’s been verified that it can draw power at 14.5V at lower amps (like 1.24A). The new 18W charger will obviously be better if so.
If someone has an iPad Pro 12.9 with a 120 min charge item from 0% to 100%, than it is drawing 25 to 30 W, but I haven’t seen it.
USBC charging bricks with above 18W all charged the iPhone X at the same rate. This doesn’t mean that the iPhone X was actually drawing 18 Watts max. The X has a 10.9 WHr battery. It would only take about 60*0.5*10.9/18 = 18 minutes to charge a 10.9 WHr from 0% to 50%, but it doesn’t in the above chart. It takes 30 minutes. You can do the math to figure out the power drawn. 60*0.5*10.9/30 = 10.9 W.
The first 50% of a battery charge (really about 5% to 55% or so) is where power draw is at max and linear. So these basic WHr/W = Hr type computations will be close enough. So, a 10 W USBA charger that you can get for $10 is good bang for the buck for an iPhone. The new 18W will likely max out the power that an iPhone can draw, but the benefit over a 10 W charger, or the 12 W Apple charger, will be something like 5 to 10 minutes.
This YouTube video has an in-line USB meter. Here is a screen cap:
The power meter was at 8.9V consistently for the first 50% of the charge, and Amps fluctuated between 1.0 to 1.8 or so. The screen cap here shows 1.19 amps. It averaged around 1.4 A imo. 8.9V x 1.4A = 12.5 W.
It's not so much that the included charger does the job but that the charger has no place in the current phone world, much less the premium phone segment. It should have been retired long ago.
Having a $1,000 dollar that you have to adapt to to charge (overnight for example) when a far superior solution exists.
Apple is deliberately shipping 5W chargers knowing full well that that action will encourage users to pay even more to get a faster standalone option with all the flexibility it provides.
This is a feature race that Apple has gladly withdrawn from entering. If having the fastest charge time possible is a big feature a buyer, they can get a Huawei or an Oppo or a Samsung.
I definitely think it is not a must have feature. It’s nice to have, but it isn’t something the bulk of the market is looking for. The vast majority of the market just charges overnight. Hence, a 5 W charger is perfectly fine. If people want to charge their iPhones faster, that niche can get it by getting a more powerful charging brick which will decrease charge times by a factor of 2. In my other post, a 10 W USBA charger is the best bang for the buck as people can get those for <$10. If someone values charging in the least time possible the most, Apple is saying go buy a Huawei phone.
A lot of Mac users also have a nice side benefit as Mac computers have USBA ports that can deliver 2.1 A for 10 W of charging, and USBC ports can go to 15 W I think. Not sure on the TB3/USBC port power output actually, but I do think it is about 10 W. So, Mac users who are charging their iPhones and iPads with their Macs get a nice charge rate out of them.
few of the tests include the iPad or use all Apple chargers and of course none of them include this particular, newly released charger. Additionally, as I'm a regular reader of AI (because they focus on Apple gear), I would like to have the information from my go-to source.
On paper, Apple's 18W charger should perform the same as any other 18W charger (from Anker, Belkin, etc.), but the fact that there is some difference in how Apple's devices charge with different brands of chargers seems to indicate Apple has included some "secret sauce" into their own chargers. Since there is a $20 difference between the 18W and 30W (and a $10 difference between the 12W and the 18W) it would interest me to know what, if anything, we get for that extra Jackson (or Hamilton).
If you have an iPad Pro, you’ll need to verify that it can draw more than 18 W. For the 2018 iPad models, the 18 W charger (maybe either 9V at 2A or 6V at 3A) will work for obvious reasons. The iPad Pro needs to suppport, be able to draw, the power that that 30W charger can deliver. It may be that they will only draw 18W and therefore no need to buy the 30W.
Reviewers can simply clear this up by reading the max output V x A values that all companies are required to print on power supplies, and buying an in-line USB power meter. They don’t need to do charge time tests.
The 29W USBC charger will have something like this:
If you get the 29W USBC charger from Apple for your iPhone or iPad, odds are pretty good that they will draw from the 5.2V x 2.4A = 12.5W output profile. So, I wouldn’t recommend buying this for iPads unless it’s been verified that it can draw power at 14.5V at lower amps (like 1.24A). The new 18W charger will obviously be better if so.
If someone has an iPad Pro 12.9 with a 120 min charge item from 0% to 100%, than it is drawing 25 to 30 W, but I haven’t seen it.
This is what I grabbed from Apple.com.. Seems you need to step up to the 29W charger to take full advantage of the fast charge ability of capable devices..
Using an Apple 18W, 12W, or 10W USB
power adapter charges some Apple devices and accessories faster than a
5W power adapter. Apple 29W, 30W, 61W, and 87W USB-C Power Adapter and Apple USB-C to Lightning cable are fast charge compatible with the following devices.
I don't know what Apple should do. Obviously more people will have use for charging accessories with USB-A connectors than USB-C at this point, but...
Two years ago I bought the most expensive laptop Apple made. It's exclusively USB-C. It's a little annoying to then buy a top-of-the-line iDevice and receive an incompatible cable. Fine, despite me delivering the maximum revenue to Apple in each category, *I'm* the one who has to buy a new cable, not the person who bought cheap stuff. Again, annoying but understandable. But then the price of a 2m USB-C/Lightning cable is 50% more than the USB-A version! @#$%!@!! At the VERY least, Apple could provide the USB-C cable at the same price as the USB-A version.
Obviously there would be outrage if Apple included USB-C accessories with iDevices, but it's still irksome to those who've dropped long coin on Apple's best products to not only be charged extra for accessories that are free to everyone else, but to then also be charged much higher prices for those accessories.
This is what I grabbed from Apple.com.. Seems you need to step up to the 29W charger to take full advantage of the fast charge ability of capable devices..
Using an Apple 18W, 12W, or 10W USB
power adapter charges some Apple devices and accessories faster than a
5W power adapter. Apple 29W, 30W, 61W, and 87W USB-C Power Adapter and Apple USB-C to Lightning cable are fast charge compatible with the following devices.
iPhone XS Max
iPhone XS
iPhone XR
iPhone X
iPhone 8
iPhone 8 Plus
iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation)
iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation)
iPad Pro 12.9-inch
iPad Pro 11-inch
iPad Pro 10.5-inch
The Knowledge Base article isn’t that useful as it does tell you how much power the supported devices draw. People shouldn’t be buying the 30W USBC charger if an iPad only draws 18 W, or 12W.
Best bang for the buck for iPhone owners is a 10W USBA charger. And if people travel a lot, an external battery that can deliver 10 W, not the 5 W that you see in a lot of the cheap external batteries.
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What is different about what Apple is doing than buying a desktop PC bundle that comes with a basic mouse, keyboard, speakers, and perhaps a 1080p monitor? Or a new Jeep that comes with 16" skinny little wheels and tires and no brush guard? If you buy a package deal at a certain price you get exactly what the manufacturer has decided to include in the packaged bundle for the price. You knew what was in the package when you bought it. It doesn't matter whether your PC's video card can support a 4K monitor if you bought a package that comes with 1080p monitor or if your iMac has 4 memory slots and came with only 2 of them filled or your Jeep is capable of mounting 21" off-road wheels/tires. Wishing or whining that the manufacturer should have included higher quality, higher performance, or higher priced accessories in the bundle you selected, because that's what you want, and at no additional cost to you, is a fanciful concept, but so is Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
I think a reasonable compromise, for economical and e-waste considerations, would be for Apple to offer customer-defined bundles, with the available higher performance and costlier accessories selectable up-front so you don't end up with "basic" accessories that land immediately in the junk drawer. But this starts to complicate the keep-it-simple approach that has allowed Apple to source massive numbers of new products into its distribution channel almost immediately after they are announced. Adding any additional variation to the process and optional bundling options to an already complex supply and distribution channel is only going to slow things down and drive up costs to consumers. But if customers are willing to accept delivery delays and a bigger hit on their wallet, why not allow them to do so?
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/iphone-x-fast-charging-speeds-compared/
https://www.macworld.com/article/3236904/ios/iphone-power-adapters.html
Here is a video of someone using an actual USB-C power meter if the first two links weren’t definitive enough for you:
https://youtu.be/xG9mgPckjp8
https://appleinsider.com/articles/17/10/02/comparing-iphone-8-charging-speeds-with-fast-charge-wireless-and-more
that they did back in early October with the iPhone 8. They presented the info in an easy to understand manner, and even though you can find calculated values from other sources or other tests on YouTube as-well-as other blogs as @payeco helpfully pointed out here:
few of the tests include the iPad or use all Apple chargers and of course none of them include this particular, newly released charger. Additionally, as I'm a regular reader of AI (because they focus on Apple gear), I would like to have the information from my go-to source.
On paper, Apple's 18W charger should perform the same as any other 18W charger (from Anker, Belkin, etc.), but the fact that there is some difference in how Apple's devices charge with different brands of chargers seems to indicate Apple has included some "secret sauce" into their own chargers. Since there is a $20 difference between the 18W and 30W (and a $10 difference between the 12W and the 18W) it would interest me to know what, if anything, we get for that extra Jackson (or Hamilton).
Including a 5W charger with a 1250 USD iPhone XS Max isn't just to include the basic model, but more akin to getting a laptop with a CD-ROM unit in it. It's just straight up outdated, and a bottleneck performance-wise.
User experience-wise it'd be a HUGE win if Apple included either an 18W charger, to allow the phones to quickly be topped up during the day, or a wireless charger.
Having a $1,000 dollar that you have to adapt to to charge (overnight for example) when a far superior solution exists.
Apple is deliberately shipping 5W chargers knowing full well that that action will encourage users to pay even more to get a faster standalone option with all the flexibility it provides.
Reviewers can simply clear this up by reading the max output V x A values that all companies are required to print on power supplies, and buying an in-line USB power meter. They don’t need to do charge time tests.
The 29W USBC charger will have something like this:
If you get the 29W USBC charger from Apple for your iPhone or iPad, odds are pretty good that they will draw from the 5.2V x 2.4A = 12.5W output profile. So, I wouldn’t recommend buying this for iPads unless it’s been verified that it can draw power at 14.5V at lower amps (like 1.24A). The new 18W charger will obviously be better if so.
If someone has an iPad Pro 12.9 with a 120 min charge item from 0% to 100%, than it is drawing 25 to 30 W, but I haven’t seen it.
USBC charging bricks with above 18W all charged the iPhone X at the same rate. This doesn’t mean that the iPhone X was actually drawing 18 Watts max. The X has a 10.9 WHr battery. It would only take about 60*0.5*10.9/18 = 18 minutes to charge a 10.9 WHr from 0% to 50%, but it doesn’t in the above chart. It takes 30 minutes. You can do the math to figure out the power drawn. 60*0.5*10.9/30 = 10.9 W.
The first 50% of a battery charge (really about 5% to 55% or so) is where power draw is at max and linear. So these basic WHr/W = Hr type computations will be close enough. So, a 10 W USBA charger that you can get for $10 is good bang for the buck for an iPhone. The new 18W will likely max out the power that an iPhone can draw, but the benefit over a 10 W charger, or the 12 W Apple charger, will be something like 5 to 10 minutes.
This YouTube video has an in-line USB meter. Here is a screen cap:
The power meter was at 8.9V consistently for the first 50% of the charge, and Amps fluctuated between 1.0 to 1.8 or so. The screen cap here shows 1.19 amps. It averaged around 1.4 A imo. 8.9V x 1.4A = 12.5 W.
I definitely think it is not a must have feature. It’s nice to have, but it isn’t something the bulk of the market is looking for. The vast majority of the market just charges overnight. Hence, a 5 W charger is perfectly fine. If people want to charge their iPhones faster, that niche can get it by getting a more powerful charging brick which will decrease charge times by a factor of 2. In my other post, a 10 W USBA charger is the best bang for the buck as people can get those for <$10. If someone values charging in the least time possible the most, Apple is saying go buy a Huawei phone.
A lot of Mac users also have a nice side benefit as Mac computers have USBA ports that can deliver 2.1 A for 10 W of charging, and USBC ports can go to 15 W I think. Not sure on the TB3/USBC port power output actually, but I do think it is about 10 W. So, Mac users who are charging their iPhones and iPads with their Macs get a nice charge rate out of them.
Using an Apple 18W, 12W, or 10W USB power adapter charges some Apple devices and accessories faster than a 5W power adapter. Apple 29W, 30W, 61W, and 87W USB-C Power Adapter and Apple USB-C to Lightning cable are fast charge compatible with the following devices.
Two years ago I bought the most expensive laptop Apple made. It's exclusively USB-C. It's a little annoying to then buy a top-of-the-line iDevice and receive an incompatible cable. Fine, despite me delivering the maximum revenue to Apple in each category, *I'm* the one who has to buy a new cable, not the person who bought cheap stuff. Again, annoying but understandable. But then the price of a 2m USB-C/Lightning cable is 50% more than the USB-A version! @#$%!@!! At the VERY least, Apple could provide the USB-C cable at the same price as the USB-A version.
Obviously there would be outrage if Apple included USB-C accessories with iDevices, but it's still irksome to those who've dropped long coin on Apple's best products to not only be charged extra for accessories that are free to everyone else, but to then also be charged much higher prices for those accessories.
Best bang for the buck for iPhone owners is a 10W USBA charger. And if people travel a lot, an external battery that can deliver 10 W, not the 5 W that you see in a lot of the cheap external batteries.