Everything has an Achilles heel and cables are definitely Achilles
heels. That said, my iPhone 5 is over 3 years old and none of the
lightning cables (I cannot tell which is the oldest) is in fine condition.
The design of the lightning connector makes it difficult to grasp so
its possible that one pulls on the cable.
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On 5/13/2016 4:22 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
OK, I wonder if anyone else is having, or has had this problem.
Over the years, I've bought quite a few devices that use lightning
cables. Anything from my old IPhone 5, 5S, 6Plus, 6S, a few Apple TV
4's, etc.
Point is, after about 2 or 3, if I'm lucky, months roughly, it seems
like the end of the insolation right where the lightning connector is
that goes into the device, that area seems to keep getting cut/torn.
Usually it's not so bad that the cable stops working, but it's bad
enough that it definitely has the potential that at any moment, it could
get worse. I have one cable now which is almost 98% sebbered all the
way through both the insolation and the actual wire itself. It's pretty
pathetic. It seems like most all my cables eventually are getting to
this point, and I swear, I'm not misusing them. I'm just plugging them
in, and unplugging them as normal.
Apparently, I'm by far not the first person who's had this issue. If
you just Google online, you'll find lots of forums and blogs, etc. of
people who've had the same issue quite regularly. So apparently, it
must not be just me.
Is it just these things are really badly designed? I'm on hold right
now waiting for Apple to pick up to see if maybe they can replace a few
of these chords, but I'm not very hopeful. They might, but I'm not
counting on it.
I'm just wonderring if any of you guys have also found your cables
tearing, getting cut, or worse on a consistent basis right at the tip of
the cord like I am. If so, what are you all doing to get around this,
so you don't have to keep buying cord after cord after cord every few
months. This alone is starting to make me reconsider iOS devices. At
least, ones with lightning connecters.
Lightning's great, but the cords appear to be crap in my opinion based
soly on what I so far have observed. Again, that's stated as an
opinion, not a fact. Keep that in mind.
Chris.
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