Yep, I am fed up too. Had a TMobile mytouch with the micro USB charge cable for 3 years. It never once clogged up with lint or failed.
Now comes Apple with a proprietary charging port and a ransom-ware dongle built into the cable and it *****. . . .lint that is! That and the non-user replaceable battery have been aggravation that makes one wonder how much trouble one should go through for Apple's nice aesthetics.
But the killer is not including water resistance in the iphone 6. I have had to have my iphone 5 repaired 3 times due to a drop of water getting into the charging port and shorting out some of the electronics (probably the matching ransomware chip inside of the phone making sure you pay an Apple royalty for on any charging cable you buy.) It failed the first time when I spilled some coffee on the front of my shirt, a second time from a couple of rain drops entering the charging port in my front shirt pocket. The third time it failed was from sweat while exercising. Each time it required a charging port replacement.
So while Apple tries to figure out how to get a Japanese engineer into their Chinese manufacturing plant to show them how to make a user openable battery door and another to show them how to water proof it, Hello Samsung!
