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That would certainly mean cutting features. Thunderbolt limits the length of the cable to ~50cm, but that's way too short for a power cord.



Thunderbolt 3 cables can definitely be different from fully featured USB-C cables though. They're also labelled differently, with the Thunderbolt lightning bolt mark.


I read somewhere that they are going to merge Thunderbolt in the USB 4 spec, so they won't be so different soon :)




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