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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The thing is that lightning cable still uses usb2.0 specs, which is based on 2 conductors for data and 2 for power.
Typec is a much further and may support wide variety of versions from 1.0 up to 3.1 and utilities much more data conductors in the cable.

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