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Mil-spec?

• dheera 5y ago
  Military people just sit in canopies and hit buttons these days. Consumers are the ones that will actually have cables bitten, chewed, stomped, sat on by unfit, heavy civilian asses, jammed into wheels of office chairs, rammed into by strangers' hips in coffee shops when your connector hangs off the edge, dunked in cereal, splattered by kitchen grease, smashed into rocks at Yosemite, and shoved into bags while plugged in after a slow TSA checkpoint and needing to sprint as fast as possible to a departure gate. Very different set of ruggedness requirements. Most cables of the 80s and 90s were completely fine in these civilian environments.
  • dotancohen 5y ago
    If the consumer device breaks, the owner typically consumes a new one. If the pro device breaks, the pro typically consumes a competitor's product. If the mil device breaks, the mil typically won't order 85,000 of them. It is in the company's interest to ensure that the consumer device breaks.