I feel like it wouldn't really be that hard to do. Just do the coily cable thing. It's the same reason why springs are coils.
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Because I'd rather have the cable die than some super-ruggedised cable with the flexibility of a pencil break the port.
You can have both…
Superb, I can break both my phone and the cable at the same time /s
Though tbf I've got stock Apple cables which are years old. I don't get how people do this.
That old cord had lead in it. Newer regulations require different materials.
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Acid in your skin oils is breaking down the plasticizer in the insulation.
Has happened before here, with more than just phone\usb cables.
So much shit got into my phone port I started charging wirelessly and never looked back.
I just cleaned mine out with a needle.
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One was designed to be rented from the phone company.
Those phone cables should be compatible as USB charging cables with some kind of adapter. Gives me an idea
I hate to be that that guy - but a lot of this can be boiled down to careless use. If you pull in the cable to disconnect, you’re eventually going to break it. You’re supposed to pull on the hard plastic part of the connector.
I’ve owned six Apple-made cables, and every single one of them broke like this. The fourth time, I gaslit myself into believing it was my fault, so I babied the cable to an extreme degree to keep it healthy. I only touched the hard plastic, I kept the cable lying in a straight line with no kinks, and I never let any force/heat/sunlight/water touch the cable even a little bit. It still went bad.
I’ve owned dozens of cheap garbage cables I bought at 1/10 the price from many brands, none of them has ever failed.
Anyone who has read or watched Silo will recognize this is because Apple put extreme R&D efforts into making sure their cables fail after an acceptable amount of time to give them plausible deniability in forcing another purchase.
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