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Product Reviewer Explains Why Apple's Charging Cables Break So Easily
A green initiative and an emphasis on aesthetics over functionality backfire
By Rain Noe - May 25
Here product reviewer Greg Wyatt Jr., founder of the Apple Explained YouTube channel, gives a succinct explanation of why the company's charging cables are so freaking fragile.
I'm hoping you will watch the 3-minute video because I'd like to support content creators like this, who use their platform to educate laypeople on how things are made, what goes into their products, and how those decisions are made.
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Product Reviewer Explains Why Apple's Charging Cables Break So Easily
They completely failed to design a decent strain relief.
I’ve been putting poly- tubing on my lightning cables since I had an iPhone 5 and OtterBox case. There just wasn’t enough of the plug body you could grab onto once you plugged in..
This all makes an assumption that Apple doesn't want cables to be consumables. There are a dozen ways to do strain relief with the materials they use. The company excels at durability testing and has fantastic mechanical engineers.