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Most standard phones, including all iPhones, only charge at a maximum of 30 watts. Unless it's like a specialty Android phone that's like designed for gaming or something like that, and it needs a shit ton of power, then you can get like 60 watts fast charge power delivery for a phone. But like most run-of-the-mill flagship phones, top-of-the-line phones, they're only going to top out at like 30 watts maximum. And that'll charge your phone from zero to 100 in about an hour and 10 minutes. And that's what you get with the 65-watt charger and power delivery 3.0 cable. I get 30 watts into my iPhone, and that charges it really fast. But now and then, like once a month, I put it on a slow charger and just let it go from dead to full nice and slow, just to maintain the battery. And yeah, man, there's all kinds of crazy standards. And then you look at another aspect of things, like I use my Mac. It has Type-C video out. So it has one HDMI port for video, but it can also connect two other displays through Type-C, or Thunderbolt they call it. And Thunderbolt is a Type-C port on a computer, but it's made to a certain specification. Then you've got video cables, or Type-C cables that can do video. Even the fastest charge cables don't necessarily transmit video. And that's another standard, video out over Type-C. And you need different type of cables to do that. The cables that can do the video can also do the quick charge, but not all quick charge cables can do video. Wrap your head around that one.