Soldato
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- 26 Aug 2003
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This is absolutely you. Nothing wrong with Apple cables, I've had so many that if there was some fundamental issue with them I'd have managed to do this.
Instead I have a drawer full of old ones that are in perfect nick but I can't find a reason to bin them.
Sorry but this is utter rubbish.
We replace literally over ten times more lightning cables than other Apple cables at work.
They are pure junk. We process so many repairs for these cables it's ridiculous.
And when people say why don't you pull it by the connector, then:
People will not naturally pull it by the connect when the connector is so tiny, completely devoid of grip, and pretty much half disappears inside your phone's case if you have one on
You don't have to do that with anyone else's cables.
The reason these are so bad is that Apple have made a conscious decision to disregard every other aspect of the cable's design, usability and longevity in favour of it being thin.
Absurd.
This is the lightning cable specifically I'm talking about. 30-pin cables are much hardier and have more reasonable amounts of strain relief.