Curious, breaking USB-C port with lightning?

[ToomeyND]

One major disappointment I have with the new phone is the continuation of lightning when USB-C is available. On top of that, now we will have cords that are Lightning on one end and USB-C on the other, which look nearly identical. However, plugging the lightning side into a USB-C port on accident could break the connector inside.

Has anyone here had that issue? It seems like just a matter of time before people start putting the wrong end into their MacBooks, but maybe i'm way off. Has anyone here done it?

 

[BeyondtheTech]

Don't see how anyone could confuse the two ends, but maybe that's just me.

 

[carestudio]

You wont be able to break either end.
you need such cable to charge iPad pro faster, look at what other people did.
http://crazydiamondstar.blogspot.com/2016/08/usb-c-dock-best-baymax-for-macbook.html

 

[ToomeyND]

You wont be able to break either end.
you need such cable to charge iPad pro faster, look at what other people did.
http://crazydiamondstar.blogspot.com/2016/08/usb-c-dock-best-baymax-for-macbook.html

It's not that you break an end of the cable. It's that the lightning male end will fit in the female USB-C where that little circuit board is vulnerable. So if you grabbed the wrong end of the cable, you could theoretically shove the lightning into the USB-C port and damage the internals of the USB-C port. That was my Q.

 

[deeddawg]

Who is jamming cables into ports hard enough that this is a concern?

 

[applesith]

Look before you put it in?

Not sure how this is a real issue.

 

[997440]

Mark the cable ends with marks you can easily, quickly identify.

 

[SigEp265]

Who is jamming cables into ports hard enough that this is a concern?

there is a joke here i know it ... lol