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How many Apple chargers have you killed?
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I'm surprised when I see people that have broken one somehow.
I buy lots of charging cables, but that's just so I can have them located in convenient spots (my office, my home office, my bedroom, a couple in each car, etc), but I've yet to destroy any.
Usually when I see someone destroy a cable, it's because they pull it out by the main part of the cable roughly, every time. I pull mine out by the actual adapter (the fat part that's pressed up against the phone).
Same here. Do that and you'll never have a problem.I'm surprised when I see people that have broken one somehow.
I buy lots of charging cables, but that's just so I can have them located in convenient spots (my office, my home office, my bedroom, a couple in each car, etc), but I've yet to destroy any.
Usually when I see someone destroy a cable, it's because they pull it out by the main part of the cable roughly, every time. I pull mine out by the actual adapter (the fat part that's pressed up against the phone).
I'm glad it's worked for you, but you are incorrect.
And in case you think I'm lying, I'm a video professional who personally owns hundreds of cables. I think I've had to throw out roughly 3 work cables in the last 15 years. So, no, I don't think I'm somehow respectful of every single cable in the world except ones made by Apple.
EDIT: It's this rubbery "floam-like" material. It just starts to fall apart. Like I said in my pervious post, the old plastic-y iPod cables never did this. When Apple changed the material they started to all disintegrate on me. Seems pretty open and shut to me.
Guess which of these cables is way older than the other. I definitely treated them both the same way.
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Holy crap. What do you do to those things?
I plug/unplug my phone into these cables many times a day and not one of mine, or my wife's, or my kid's, has showed any signs of destructive wear.
If you're noticing the way you're manipulating the cables is causing them to fall apart, you can either keep doing the same thing and getting the same results (busted cables), or change how you handle them a little differently. Clearly, the majority of us don't have any problems with our cables; they don't just fall apart by themselves.
I wish I knew. Seriously, I've bought about 15 of these things over the last 3 years.
I'm about ready to blame the air in my house or something. Why do my much-older iPod cables do just fine? No idea.
Why do mine, my wife's, and my daughter's cables all fall apart at the same rate? No idea. Surely one of us is more careful than the others? Apparently not.
I just don't know.
Zero cables/chargers killed, going clear back to an iPod Classic, 2 iPod touches, 2 iPads, 3 Macbooks and 7 iPhones (3G through 6+, including wife's phones). We currently have 7 of them plugged in at different locations throughout the house and I have one plugged in in my car, all of which see regular use. Never had a single problem with any of them over the last 10+ years.
Personally, I've destoyed/kill no Apple chargers, cables, etc in my 5+ years of "everything Apple", and the many years prior to that with iPods.
However, I have grandkids who (used to) use my chargers for their devices and the little darlings have killed several cables - both the 30-pin and lightning variety.
However, I have grandkids who (used to) use my chargers for their devices and the little darlings have killed several cables - both the 30-pin and lightning variety.
One of my cats appears to have chewed the lightning cable on the charger by my bedside in the last few days .It still works but a bit of a pain since I am likely to be selling or trading in very shortly although I suppose I can substitute with one of my many other cables.
.It still works but a bit of a pain since I am likely to be selling or trading in very shortly although I suppose I can substitute with one of my many other cables.
All of mine work, all the way back to a 2nd Generation iPod that saw a lot of abuse.
I hate quoting myself, but, just recently my original charger for my MBP, purchased in January 2008, died on me. I got over 7 1/2 years out of it so that isn't too bad.