So I guess eventually this would end up being the iPhone new connector had Apple not been forced to adopt USB-C https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/31/24057392/apple-vision-pro-battery-lightning-cable
A bit of a Hot Take I guess but…I think Lightning was a better connector than USB-C. It is at the very least more durable. I wish Apple had tried to make it an open standard, but then I guess we’d have multiple competing open standards, again.