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The cables that degraded that way were because they used a more recyclable product, they moved away from it and it stopped being a problem.

That so many of the Apple frayed outside cables survived despite the outside fraying is funny …

Their cables are now braided by default.

The “hating apple” or better yet “tech tribalism” in general is the real cult

The problem is that you can't go just off of the price because there are shitty brands that will sell the crappy one that will break early for 20 Euros to fool people into thinking they'll last.

Exactly. My Aliexpress specials have lasted forever. Buying a "brand" is dumb.

You also bend, move, carry, unplug/replug, use a charge cable a lot more than we did land line phones.

I don't remember that at all.. Was it before 90s?

Finally a counter-example to enshittification.

Thanks, Cave Johnson.

Calvin's Dad Explanation Award

extra data weighs down the cable

Does it really? I get that you're taking the piss, and it won't have any significant or even perceptible impact, but seriously does it?

Like it exists, right? I might just be tweaking here.

I'm gonna end up full Steve here if i think about it much longer

That's because Apple's cables are designed for aesthetics first and everything else second.

Better yet don't buy apple products at all.

But non-Apple cables are not officially supported, right? I think apple can't guarantee that your iPhone works and charges well with an unlicensed cable. Also I don't know if the Apple Repair Shop will accept a phone that has been charged with an unlicensed cable. But what do I know, I am an Android user

I've had it happen with a few Lenovo laptop chargers. Razer mice though, were especially bad at this 10 years ago. Haven't owned a Razer product since then though, but I'd go through 2 cables per year because of this. Haven't lost a single cable since changing to other brands though.

Yeah, USB cables that became defective for me either had a damaged plug in micro-usb times or they had internal breaks after intense and frankly pretty rough use.

Which brands do you say are longlasting?

Also stop resting it on the cord bend while using it in bed. The number of times I have seen this prevented by a 90° adapter is… at least 3.

While that might be right in some cases, these just had really bad plastic coverings. I had an htc cable made with the same stuff. Without using it just sitting the drawer, it now is cracked all over and the cover is falling apart. Mechanical stress probably would make it break faster, but these cables also just sucked.

Back in the day, the phone was property of the phone company, so it was in their best interest not having someone come replace the cable.

No thanks, at that point I'd rather just a buy a third party one of higher quality.

You don't need PVC to create durable cabling.

Whats the matter with PVC specifically?

This is because the plastic they originally used which was good for this kinda caused cancer, so they had to change to a new plastic for that fascist white they love.... Only problem is the new plastic breaks easily.

Weird, for me the apple cables are usually the best I can get. But I've never had one of those plastic/silicone cables of theirs, just their braided USB-C ones. They have really good charging speeds and I have yet to break one of them.

You can have both…

its braided copper covered in plastic insulation, it's just that apple cables are garbage

Also the plastic was made from cancer. Like pure 100% distilled cancer in plastic form.

I just cleaned mine out with a needle.

If by "that guy" you mean the guy that didn't understood the comparison, then yes, you're "that guy". We used to mistreat the living shit out of telephone cables and they rarely broke.

I’ve owned six Apple-made cables, and every single one of them broke like this. The fourth time, I gaslit myself into believing it was my fault, so I babied the cable to an extreme degree to keep it healthy. I only touched the hard plastic, I kept the cable lying in a straight line with no kinks, and I never let any force/heat/sunlight/water touch the cable even a little bit. It still went bad.

I’ve owned dozens of cheap garbage cables I bought at 1/10 the price from many brands, none of them has ever failed.

Anyone who has read or watched Silo will recognize this is because Apple put extreme R&D efforts into making sure their cables fail after an acceptable amount of time to give them plausible deniability in forcing another purchase.