Originally Posted by
Stiggles:
“Is it? Ive seen loads of complaints about it.
A quick google shows this:-
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=li...m=122&ie=UTF-8
Oh, and even on apples own site where you buy the cable!
http://store.apple.com/us/reviews/MD...g-to-usb-cable
Most of the reviews are poor! 2 stars out of 740 reviews! Still going to say you haven't seen anyone complain about it now?
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I don't think you will find anyone who will disagree that Apples cables are value for money or for that matter that they are well built (there attempt to make the cable more 'stylish' makes it more fragile) BUT you aren't forced to buy them. Despite your claim they haven't blocked all cables just those that don't meet a minimum spec. I have 3 cheap non apple cables and all work perfectly on ios7.
And again I will point out my android phone won't charge on some micro usb cables I have which do work find for my kindle and my portable hard drives. These cables also won't power my raspberry pi on so its not just Apple
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“Funny as i have never seen one destroy itself! I've tripped over countless usb cables and i have never bent or snapped one. Its also incorrect to say lightning will disengage when pulled. Just the other day at work i saw my pals iphone hanging from the desk still plugged in to the phone and the computer.
Never heard of that since they could as you say never ever tell.”
You should see all the portable hard drives I've had to recover due to broken micro USB ports on the device. Either the plastic tab breaks through wear or the metal surround warps which causes a lose connection (which can cause data loss when writing to the disc) which eventually causes a terminal breakage.
And most manufacturers won't fix a broken port as they consider it to be due to misuse by the user rather than a fault with the device