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Anecdotally, the Lightning cable seems to be a bit flaky itself, getting 1.5 stars from 1646 reviews on Apple's store: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD818ZM

Anecdotally, the Lightning cable seems to be a bit flaky itself, getting 1.5 stars from 1646 reviews on Apple's store: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD818ZM/A/lightning-to-usb-cable http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD818ZM/A/lightning-to-usb... Hopefully Type C will be better than Micro-B and Lightning. Also, Type C can deliver 100W of power, which I'm not sure Lightning could do...

jacobolus 12y ago
The only people who ever review items like cables are ones who ran into failures, so that’s a very skewed sampling.
- pbreit 12y ago
  No, the negative reviews on Lightning cables mostly have to do with people complaining they have to buy new cables.
- briandh 12y ago
  Online product reviews have self-selection bias, yes, but it is not true that cables are reviewed only or even mostly by people who were not satisfied. For example, on Amazon we can see a 4.5 star mini USB cable with 679 reviews [1]. Similarly, Monoprice has a 5 star USB extension cable with 160 reviews. [1] http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-USB-Male-Mini-Cable/dp/B00E9IF9RI/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1411450345&sr=1-2&keywords=usb http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-USB-Male-Mini-Cable/dp/B0... [2] http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=103&cp_id=10303&cs_id=1030304&p_id=5435&seq=1&format=2 http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=103&cp_id=10303&cs_id=...
  - millstone 12y ago
    And the Apple Lightning cable has four stars with nearly 4k reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Lightning-to-USB-Cable/dp/B0097BEFYA/ http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Lightning-to-USB-Cable/dp/B0097B... Either there's a big difference in quality between the cables Apple sells on Amazon vs the Apple Store, or there's something else going on.
threeseed 12y ago
With the lightning cable the problem is with the reinforcement between the connector and the cable. And it's a problem Apple has had with pretty much every cable they've ever made. The actual connector itself is pretty damn good.
alex_doom 12y ago
When your cat chews up the cable, of course you're going to leave a bad review. Get it together Apple!
- smackfu 12y ago
  The soft-touch plastic used on Lightning cables has the amazing property that stress failures look just like the cable was chewed on. Not even joking. It basically disintegrates and falls apart.

jacobolus 12y ago

The only people who ever review items like cables are ones who ran into failures, so that’s a very skewed sampling.

pbreit 12y ago
No, the negative reviews on Lightning cables mostly have to do with people complaining they have to buy new cables.
briandh 12y ago
Online product reviews have self-selection bias, yes, but it is not true that cables are reviewed only or even mostly by people who were not satisfied. For example, on Amazon we can see a 4.5 star mini USB cable with 679 reviews [1]. Similarly, Monoprice has a 5 star USB extension cable with 160 reviews. [1] http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-USB-Male-Mini-Cable/dp/B00E9IF9RI/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1411450345&sr=1-2&keywords=usb http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-USB-Male-Mini-Cable/dp/B0... [2] http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=103&cp_id=10303&cs_id=1030304&p_id=5435&seq=1&format=2 http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=103&cp_id=10303&cs_id=...
- millstone 12y ago
  And the Apple Lightning cable has four stars with nearly 4k reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Lightning-to-USB-Cable/dp/B0097BEFYA/ http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Lightning-to-USB-Cable/dp/B0097B... Either there's a big difference in quality between the cables Apple sells on Amazon vs the Apple Store, or there's something else going on.

threeseed 12y ago

With the lightning cable the problem is with the reinforcement between the connector and the cable. And it's a problem Apple has had with pretty much every cable they've ever made. The actual connector itself is pretty damn good.

alex_doom 12y ago

When your cat chews up the cable, of course you're going to leave a bad review. Get it together Apple!

smackfu 12y ago
The soft-touch plastic used on Lightning cables has the amazing property that stress failures look just like the cable was chewed on. Not even joking. It basically disintegrates and falls apart.