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Unknown parent • •@Hank G ☑️ @fne8w2ah It appears to be due to a combination of spark erosion of the centre pin, as lightning is prone to, ironically, arcing on connection and disconnection, as well as electrolysis over time, with the pin eroding and electroplating the connector inside the phone.
The first problem can be rectified by never hot plugging, but if you live in a humid climate, there’s nothing you can do about the second.
Indeed, while the ports last longer than the cables, they eventually fail from being coated with all that crap. Before I switched almost entirely to inductive charging and wireless CarPlay, an iPhone’s lightning port for me rarely made it to two years before dying.
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I loved magsafe for the first couple years I used it; then I started to see them fraying & breaking at the connector. It was almost the rule. (I ordered power bricks for Macs for an ad agency for about 8 years, so I saw this a lot.)
Mind you *mine* never went out, so I think this was a user behavior thing, but I would say they were poorly designed for the behavior of most of my users.
FeralRobots
in reply to FeralRobots • • •Thinking back on this & remembering that at some point Apple redesigned the connector to address this & it...didn't get any better. I.e., they misidentified the cause, which I now think was probably more to do with the materials used in the cable wrapping & "boot" than in the angles or stresses. So, maybe not engineering so much as materials.
Sarah Brown
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Ah, totally different thing I guess. My mistake.
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in reply to Cyberspice • •@Cyberspice @Michael Vogel @fne8w2ah I've never had one last more than a couple of months regular use.
Record is 8 hours from brand new to dead.
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Unknown parent • • •I am an Apple user since day 1.
The Lightning connector is the worst.
The cables are breaking in around 3-6 months (apple original).
3rd party cable are far more reliable.
But the worst is, that lightning ports gets clogged with dust.
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in reply to Cyberspice • • •@heluecht @fne8w2ah When the fail for me they fail like this. This one is from the car and kept being trod on. Even this hasn’t fully failed.
Sarah Brown
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in reply to Cyberspice • • •@heluecht @fne8w2ah A minute using the same process I use to clean up connectors on retro computers and you get this. They are gold plated contacts.
Sarah Brown
in reply to Cyberspice • •@Cyberspice @Michael Vogel @fne8w2ah Can just see it starting to rub through to the circuit board in a spot.
That’s about a fortnight use for one of mine.
Kevin Karhan
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@fne8w2ah #Apples #Lightning Connector was shit from day 1 and had 0 reasons to exist - unlike the original #DockConnector, but even then the #iPod could've used #MiniUSB or #MicroUSB + #AV-Chinch and #MHL to do Audio & Video.
#MagSafe is also another #proprietary #SingleVendor solution when #Qi+ existed for over a decade.
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