My point, I suppose, was that one of those cables should be in the box.
The charger's neither here nor there for the sake of my argument: as things stand, you can plug your phone into the charger and the connection between the two can be USB-A, USB-C or Jony Ive's finger for all it matters.
This was the most frustrating thing for me. I have a new touchbar mac and iphone x and when i realized i needed a usb-c to lighting cable and went to the apple store in downtown sf they didn't have any in the store. this was ~6 months after the iphone came out so it wasn't even an initial rush related issue. crazy.
The charger's neither here nor there for the sake of my argument: as things stand, you can plug your phone into the charger and the connection between the two can be USB-A, USB-C or Jony Ive's finger for all it matters.