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Hear me out, I’m an Android guy at heart and I genuinely believe the lightning connector is vastly superior. I never have lightning connectors fail to seat, no
by donatj 5y ago
Hear me out, I’m an Android guy at heart and I genuinely believe the lightning connector is vastly superior.
I never have lightning connectors fail to seat, nor fall out of a socket while I’m using a device, nor have I ever broken a lightning connector on a device.
These are all seemingly fundamental problems with USB-C. I have had THREE USB-C sockets fail on two phones through normal use, on Pixel and OnePlus devices. I have never had a USB socket of any other type fail on any device, and I’ve had umpteen cellphones since the late 90s. I genuinely baby my electronics.
Almost every USB-C socket after a couple months of use loses its gripping power, whereas the lightning connector on my 2017 iPad I’m writing this on right now is still fantastically grippy. The USB-C on my current phone, a year old Pixel 3A XL is so loose that while mounted to my cars dash, the cable pops out when taking hard turns. The socket is clear of debris, and will do so with a brand new cable. It just has zero holding power left after only a year.
I think the vast majority of people who prefer USB-C are those who haven’t spent a significant amount of time with both. iPhone users who blindly assume the other side is greener, and Android users mocking Apples weird connector.
- Scoundreller 5y agoMaybe they can make a USB-C-1 that fits at the start and then USB-C-2 and USB-C-3 that are microscopically bigger to fit those old and wrinkly connectors? Wouldn’t that be great? (Semi-joking, I know some NES games (Konami?) had slightly thicker PCBs that would always work, but at the expense of decreasing the machine’s life overall on every other game). I guess ZIF is the way to go, but hard to fit into small form factors than something slide/brush contractors.)
- deelly 5y agoLooks like all other people on internet with broken lightning connector are blatant liars..
- donatj 5y agoYou can break anything if you try hard enough. I make no claims of lightning being indestructible, but USB-C is genuinely fragile.
- y4mi 5y agoI haven't had a single USB-C socket fail, so I kinda think the same applies there. Not even a single cable broke, so I am really confused when people like you seem to manage to destroy them left and right
- advanced-DnD 5y agoI plug USB-C cable into my iPad and MBP more than I do to my boyfriend... so yours is only an anecdote of perhaps badly manufacture devices.
- contravariant 5y agoYou plug your USB-C cable into your boyfriend?
- rattlesnakedave 5y agoI love lightning for this exact reason. It’s very difficult to break the actual port in the phone by design.
- concinds 5y agoI've read on forums that if you use a really thin, small metal device, e.g. a sewing needle for example, you'll be able to dig up tons of tiny lint and make the port work like new again. You say yours is free of debris but it's possible you used thicker tools, and didn't manage to dislodge it all.