How come USB-C data cables transfer much more data than Apple’s lightening cable?

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If I understand correctly, the job of the data cable is to transfer current from a wall charger or computer to a phone. Through this current the phone decipers the zero and 1s to make it code/data. Now shouldn’t current flow at the same rate between two cables, provided the thickness/resistance is the same?

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Electricity can still be rather fickle. Lets look at ethernet cables. For newer standards, to reach extreme bandwidths, they had to remove the colored stripes on the individual conductors because the dye would cause interference. Thats on top of very specific twist rates of each conductor pair. They all still use the RJ45 connector on both ends, but how the cable itself is designed and manufactured has had a significant impact on what it can carry.

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