@crashglasshouses its sorta insane they still do this...

@crashglasshouses its sorta insane they still do this I have never had this issue with other types of cables

Like 4 Oct 2022 at 20:12 | Open on social.wake.st

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@liaizon nothing "insane" about it, it's a deliberate choice to make you buy more cables because any cable that people are going to pull out by the wire, which doesn't have strain relief, is destined to break sooner than a wire that does.

no ableist psychiatric conditions were involved in the making of these decisions. nothing is sacred to capitalists.

4 Oct 2022 at 20:35 | Open on kolektiva.social

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@crashglasshouses I honestly don't believe the reason for this specific issue is planned obsolescence. I think it is about apple's insistence to use materials that feel "soft", their cables do feel different and I think that matters more to apple then their stability. If they had designed the cables to "die" after a certain time I think they would do that in a more intentional way. The connectors themselves are better made then most usb connectors from other products I have.

5 Oct 2022 at 8:48 | Open on social.wake.st

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@liaizon "soft materials" which just happen to fall apart in your hand every month isn't a deliberate choice to make you buy more expensive crap... okee dokee.

it's not a case of "after a certain amount of time", so much as "made to break so you keep buying more".

5 Oct 2022 at 9:34 | Open on kolektiva.social