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USB 3.0 was released before the lightning cable and provided similar specs. Lightning cable didn't add anything
Usb3 came out in 2008 and lightning came out in 2012. You are confusing it with USBC
USB 3 is not USB-C. USB-C was a few years after lightning. At the time devices were shipping with Micro USB which was genuinely terrible. Apple could have made Lightning support USB3 speeds out of the box. But they didn’t and never really improved it. I think a few of their tablets did support USB 3 speeds, but weirdly not their phones.