... Tell me how young you are without telling me how young you are.

I don’t think many of those types of phones were made/used in the 90’s.

That's actually a more shitty cable. The USB spec gives a maximum cable length based on when wire length will start to pick up more interference and impact data rates.
Basically this is a curly cable that can't be as long as it otherwise would, and if you try it's going to actively try to pull itself out of the device because it's a spring.

Wouldn't they still fray near the end?

Just from oxidation

It’s agnostic. You can pretty much put it on any cable as long it’s not too thick.

cable strain relief

Same goes for Google and the others. They have a tribe or flock or cult. All the tech companies want that or have it to some degree. Though some are more obvious.

Funny, Apple mainstreamed tech tribalism. Remember when they were so so butthurt when android entered the scene, that their whole cult started calling them poor people's phone? Their whole schtick was being an expensive status symbol? Suing samsung because their phone was a rectangle? Suing a pear brand logo because theirs was an apple. They had to go so low to green bubble android users to.make them seem like outcasts in group chats for teenagers? Tim Apple's "Buy your mom an iPhone" because they didn't want to support RCS?

You can "achsually" spin it however the fuck you want, Apple is THE tech tribalist cult, that other companies fawn over. Not the smart ones, the dumb and loyal ones who buy expensive shit no matter what.

Fuck all Big Tech. They're only after monopolizing the market for data and profits.

He'll get the nerds in the lab to cook something up.

There is a weight associated with the electrons needed to convey information, but it's negligible.

Beyond that though, we're not actually so interested in moving the electrons, but in toggling the electric field. Most of the electrons in the wire stay in the wire, and any that leave are balanced by another coming in on the other end. Electrons can move between the atoms, but if your cable is actually changing the number then something has gone wrong, since laptops don't typically ionize copper.

It's a pretty straightforward calculation, since amperage is the number of electrons per second, and the cables has a well documented signaling rate.
It works out to a bit weighing about 2x10^-22 grams for a USB cable.

Data is essentially just fancy electric current. Current doesn't really 'flow' so much as propogate a wave similar to a newtons cradle desk toy. A physicist might chime in on this, but no, I don't think data being transmitted actually weighs anything.

Unless you factor in the interaction between any induction effects and the earths magnetic field. But it's beyond negligible.

It's only 4 wires, only 2 of which carry data. A 6ft cable transferring at a max usb speed of 80gb/s moving at the slow end of signal propagation through copper of .5c would have less than a kilobyte on it at any time.

The data exists as electricity, and while electrons have mass, there's always going to be roughly the same number of electrons in the cable. They're flowing in a loop across the cable, so more electrons aren't needed for more data. It's the pattern they move in that carries the data (kinda).

At least that's my simplistic view of it. There's probably some technicalities I'm glossing over, but I think the point stands that a cable carrying more data isn't heavier due to that data.

Just like all apple products

Yeah, but even after then the phone cord was still a buy it for life item and it came for free with the phone. They haven't belonged to the phone company since the 70s at the latest.