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Why would I find a cable at a friends house? I charge my phone at home, at night. With one of the cables that also work with my earphones and tablet.
Some people have sexy friends that invite them to stay the night. Some people stay with family. Some people use their phones a lot and need to charge away from home. Some people have worn out batteries that don’t hold much charge.
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How do you "insert it incorrectly"? It's symmetrical and works in both possible orientations.
The correct orientation perpendicularly to the edge of the phone. No one gets exactly 90 deg. The more you are off, the more likely you are to break or wear down something. That something that breaks is in the phone, not in the cable.
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Why haven't I ever had one break (since my first and last Samsung piece of junk in 2010)?
USB C was designed in 2014. How did you have it on your Samsung device in 2010?
I've never even had a USB C port stop working!
It was a micro USB.
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In the last couple of years I've had a Pixel 2, Pixel 3a and Pixel 6, all of them had/have issues with the USB-C port. Plus the general issues around what cables can do what. Basically these days unless it's a Google charger and a Google cable I have zero confidence that I'm able to do whatever I want to do. It's a real bummer.
I get the feeling that half the problem is just shitty ebay cables. I have been plugging and unplugging apple usb-c cables in to my macbook and ipad for years now with absolutely zero issues. Still has a sharp and solid snap when it locks in to place. But I've absolutely experienced loose and flaky USB-C cables before.
Now I can finally throw away all of those perfectly usable lightning cables and buy a horde of new USB-C cables that do absolutely nothing to improve my experience. Thanks for that, EU.
??? Using a standardized cable that you'll always be able to find at a friend's place that also works with basically all modern devices doesn't improve your user experience?
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Wait, do you have those reversed? Lightning cables have zero moving parts. The clips and other bits and bobs are in the phone. USBC is reversed, so that, with USBC, most failures mean replacing the cable, not the phone.
Look inside the USB c port. Do you see a little bar sticking out, that is the breakable part
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in this case yes; however.... usb-c connections become unreliable over time. cables need jiggling and such. the protocol might be better, but the physical connector sucks. not as bad as d-sub connectors, but bad.
In the last couple of years I've had a Pixel 2, Pixel 3a and Pixel 6, all of them had/have issues with the USB-C port. Plus the general issues around what cables can do what. Basically these days unless it's a Google charger and a Google cable I have zero confidence that I'm able to do whatever I want to do. It's a real bummer.
We will finally learn which is more rugged, lightning or usbc. The female lighting is so easy to clean from sand and lint.
My experience was that lighting is a bit loose and the dimensions are a bit too big so it collects dirt and the you have to clean it. I have not experience this with usbc on multiple different devices.