>The big wins for lightning are that it's tsuper thin and that the part more likely to break is on the cable rather than the socket, while the type c socket on

>The big wins for lightning are that it's tsuper thin and that the part more likely to break is on the cable rather than the socket, while the type c socket on my MacBook and the one on my Anker charger (somewhat) rapidly became loose. I'd hoped that it would be the ground shroud on the cable but sadly it was the sockets that failed. That's kind of weird. USB-C was specifically designed to keep the material fatigue on the side of the cable and also increase durability over micro and mini USB A. The only USB-C port I had fail was the google charger I had my nexus shipped with, which broke after 3 years of heavy abuse (lots of ripping and tugging and in one case even ripping the cable out of the socket so the plug on the cable broke).