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On Garmin watches the springy mechanical part is on the cable, not the watch. Have you observed the watch itself wearing out? I would hope it's designed such th
by globular-toast 2y ago
On Garmin watches the springy mechanical part is on the cable, not the watch. Have you observed the watch itself wearing out? I would hope it's designed such that the cable is sacrificial and the watch lasts. In the product here the springs appear to be on the device side, which seems to me like the bit that would be more likely to wear out. That's concerning, but there's more chance of being to able to replace it than in something tiny like a watch.
- afandian 2y agoThe Magsafe connector on Apple laptops has pogo pins on the cable, plus a magnet to hold them on. I've had machines of all 3 generations. They have mostly been reliable, controlled for the number of cycles. But I have seen the laptop get worn down, and the pins eventually became unreliable on old laptops. I don't know how that holds up against USB or the previous weird barrel jack thing they used. Magsafe is far more visible than the others.
- rickcarlino 2y agoThat’s a correct assessment of the situation, but the lifetime of the cables is not satisfactory with my expectations. I do eventually buy a new cable every six months, but I really just wish there was a USB-C port with a rubber plug in it.
- magic_smoke_ee 2y agoReminds me of the unrepairable, craptastic design of FitBits charging connectors that would fail just about the time the warranty expired and the tech support "solution" was to "buy a new one". At least on Apple and similar with inductive charging designs, there's nothing to break. (Repairability of the rest of it, notwithstanding.)
- shoaibmerchant 2y agoFounder here, the reason to not put spring contacts on extensions is to make it easy for anyone to make extensions by just exposing solder contacts or hand soldering small discs. But we will evaluate more on the endurance part and take a call on this, we are still pre-production right now.