I partly disagree because yeah some people treat their things like shit. But I treat my things well (hell, I still have my iPad 4 from 2013 and it barely has any scratches), but I'm on my second Apple charger. The first one I gripped by the hard plastic part because I didn't want the situation in the post to happen. It still broke, the connector part just came loose from the plastic socket. Such a thing has never ever happened with my micro USB or USB-C cables for my Kindle or phone. It is not hard to notice that these are usually made thicker whereas Apple cables usually have a thin and flimsy feel.
Recently, when I started seeing little cracks on the new cable as well, I decided to be a little smarter and I bought a heat shrink tube and reinforced the most sensitive part with it. I think it helped a lot, I've had no problems with it since then, but how long it lasts remains to be seen.
I've never actually seen a charger cord that looks like that. You'd have to put one in a rat-infested attic to even get one like that... and then ANY cord is going to look like that.
Everyone in my family has cords that look like that and all of them treat their cords pretty well. My charger cord is third party higher quality make because I got tired of the cords that I took good care of getting fucked up by planned obsolescence. Most cords have the little bit at the connection point that protects it from doing that. Hell the MacBook cords that my teachers back in high school used (some of which never got moved from the desk) had problems with this because apple make a lot of money off of replacement bits
The Apple originals rarely do this. I am sure these are cheap knockoffs.
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· 5 years ago
Android chargers are no better i have gone through 4-5 different cables this year so far although they do work hard i often switch out devices i have 2 android devices 3 raspberry pis and 2 power banks and currently only 2 usb micro cables left all came with their own cables exept the pi all have failed exept the ones for the power banks
Recently, when I started seeing little cracks on the new cable as well, I decided to be a little smarter and I bought a heat shrink tube and reinforced the most sensitive part with it. I think it helped a lot, I've had no problems with it since then, but how long it lasts remains to be seen.