• IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Consider yourself lucky, I’ve never seen a connector fail at a higher rate. The ports are the problem, they’re extremely fragile and often don’t grip the connection properly. For a particularly egregious example take a look at the DualShock 4

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      3 days ago

      Oh, I missed the “micro” part. Yeah, micro-B is awful.

      When Apple was dragging its feet about moving to USB-C, I remember people talking about how terrible a connector Lightning was. I was confused, because yeah compared to USB-C Lightning was terrible, but Lightning was miles better than micro-B and mini-B, which were the standards when Lightning was created.

      Apple held onto it too long because they were greedy. But when they made it, it was a damn good connector for the time.