kmarei said:

if you drop an iphone 4 on the ground, it breaks
if you drop an iphone 15 on the ground, it breaks

not belittling the hard work that goes into each gen of gorrila glass
but whats the benefit?
it still breaks when you drop it
and having a glass back now means i have the 2 largest surfaces that are delicate now

My wife, daughter and myself have owned iPhones 4s, 6s, 8, 10 sx, 12 mini, and a 14. No cases on any of them and only 1 cracked back glass on my 10 sx when I knocked it off a 5 foot counter onto ceramic tile. I'd say that's very durable.

Well 180,000 is pretty damn good considering they can only make 400,000 in the first year. That’s because they can only get 800,000 screens in the first year and these are only sold in the US so far. When the rest of the world gets access to buy them, they will totally sell out the 400,000 for the year. 

Mike Wuerthele said:

aderutter said:

Ridiculous heading and silly article.

If you need a 3 metre TB4 cable what you gonna buy? Is there an alternative when you need 3 metres? 

My Apple TB4 Pro 3 metre cable is really, really nice and does everthing I want with a price I’m happy with. It’s far nicer than my 2m Caldigit TB4 cable for example. I’ll stick to buying the best even if it costs more. 

This isn't a three meter cable, it's a one-meter cable for $70.

We're on record about the three-meter cable being good.

Yes, and this from Apples website. There are alternatives to Apples cables and they all will work up to 3 feet and usually will work at 6 feet, but at 10 feet you want the best as that's when cables start to work or don't work. Do not skimp on money when you're buying 10 foot cables!

Thunderbolt 4 (USB‑C) Pro Cable (3 m)

FYI to everyone, don't buy a Thunderbolt cable that doesn't have a lighting bolt followed by 3 or 4 or in the future a 5. If they don't then you know they haven't be certified and are fake crap. Thunderbolt is an open standard from Intel and it's free i.e. no licensing. There's no reason for a Thunderbolt cable not to be certified unless the company is trying to sell inferior cables. 

To clarify, USB-C tells you nothing about wether the cable is a USB3, USB4, Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4. USB-C just means USB TYPE "C" connector (the fiscal shape). All the mentioned protocols I mentioned use the USB-C type connecter but tells you nothing about what kind of cable it is, that's where the icon on the end of the cable comes in. If there is no icon then you can assume its USB3 and definitely NOT Thunderbolt which requires the icon. You can use a Thunderbolt 4 cable on any device that has a USB-C connecter because Thunderbolt 4 supersedes all the rest. But you can't use a USB4 cable for everything a Thunderbolt 4 cable can do. It will be fine if you just need it to transfer data at 40Gbps since USB4 cables can do 40Gbps like Thunderbolt 4. The other nice thing about Thunderbolt cables is they are required to be first certified by Intel.