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Apple pulls remaining Lightning-based devices from European stores
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Good riddance, historically the shittiest cables in existence in terms of build quality and design, and they polluted USB-C with that design, too...
What, you want the thing to be reinforced with a flexible brace near the plug so that the cable won't fray? Fuck you. Oh, your cable frayed near the plug? Fuck you. Buy more cables, it's just e-waste. Not like the environment's going down the toilet or anything.
Now you get shitty USB c cables.
They really don't make stuff like they used to, pretty much nobody. And credit where it's due, Apple have been leading the planned obsolescence movement from the start (their iPhone 3 cables were just as bad as the current ones).
On the other end of the spectrum, I own a single no-name MicroUSB cable. I've owned it for, I think, a decade at this point. Maybe even longer than that. It was the cheapest cable I could find over 2m in length, cost me about two bucks back then. I've used it for phones, MP3 players, external hard drives, mice - you name it, it's been plugged in it. It still performs just as well as it did when I bought it, it hasn't lost its shape, and believe me when I say it received zero preferential treatment.
I honestly lost count of how many USB-C cables have failed me so far. Seriously...
I'm still using my flat OnePlus usb-c cable that I received with my oneplus 3t in 2017.
Somehow the flat cables seem to last longer overall.
The flat type was the second to fail, my first was a standard tube-y one... Granted, I bought mine in 2020, I think, so it may account for a drop in quality.
Bought it exactly based on that rationale, no dice in my case. Started developing a crease right where the cable met the nub toward the USB-C end, then it devolved into severed connections - would work if I wiggled it. And I really didn't rough it up, it was either plugged into my PC, or plugged into a wall charger at night, with "normal' amounts of flexing (I feel there's a word for this, but I'm missing it).
It was my favourite from an aesthetic standpoint, too...