Apple May Sell Optional iPhone 15 Pro USB-C Thunderbolt Cable

https://lemmy.world/post/3803522

Apple May Sell Optional iPhone 15 Pro USB-C Thunderbolt Cable - Lemmy.world

Kind of an awkward length, 0.8m is long enough it needs to be an active cable ($$) but not super long.
I didn’t know there was a distinction based on length. What is ‘active’?

Basically if a thunderbolt cable is longer than 50cm it needs a booster inside or the signal degrades too much to offer full thunderbolt speeds.

Apparently on TB 4 it’s 2m though, which I didn’t know until just now.