No - “Average consumers aren’t thinking about that sort of stuff. The phone has to work so they can use social media and take photos. For them, a charger is a charger.” I’m increasingly finding myself in this camp as I’ve asked around lately.

No - “Most don't care, but will be happy when their cables are consistent across all devices. I think the pressure should be more focused on Apple keeping their cable up-to-date with modern technology rather than USB-C specifically.” I agree, I also think Apple needs to make a more durable cable than the standard ones

Yes - “Yes, but not in a positive way. The average consumer will be quite upset at having to replace cables for everything once again. There was quite an uproar the last time the iPhone changed its charging port.” Idk, I think Apple is going to really “sell” USB-C at the event & in stores so that you don’t think of it as “replacing” but rather “upgrading” - you know Apple will do some magic marketing like always!

Yes - “So many devices now use USB-C including water pics, toothbrushes, flashlights, lighters, and many others, It's convenitent to be able to use the same charging station and cables for all.” This is the most common sentiment and I agree!

Device manufacturers would likely also have to notify the government before making available important security updates that fix known vulnerabilities and keep devices secure. Accordingly, the Secretary of State, upon receiving such an advance notice, could now request operators to, for instance, abstain from patching security gaps to allow the government to maintain access for surveillance purposes.

It’s a complete fantasy that E2EE can be toggled like a light switch and still allow messages to be delivered. The end-to-end encryption isn’t a sugar coating, some sort of extra layer of protection — it’s fundamental to the messaging protocols themselves. It has to be, when you think about it. If it were possible for, say, Signal, to silently disable E2EE but still have messages go through, how could users ever trust the service?

You could neither trust that what you were sending would be delivered securely, nor that what you received wasn’t intercepted by an interloper. There’s an explicit guarantee with all of these E2EE messaging platforms that messages can only go through securely.

Removing E2EE wouldn’t require some mere tweak to the protocols, it would require replacing the protocols entirely (with inherently insecure ones).