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Why do lightning cables break so easily?

To cut to the chase, my third lightning cable broke today. I plug it in and nothing happens. This has happened with all three the same way and it seems they just keep breaking faster and faster.


And don't tell me it's my phone because it charges fine on my ihome.

And don't tell me it's my fault because I'm fought with the cable or something.

I take pristine care of my cables


What I wanna know is if there's any more durable third party chargers out there?? Or a better way to prevent this from happening?


Because these chumps at apple obviously either don't know what they're doing or they're trying to scam us with chargers like they do with adding loads of "other data" to our iPhones.


Now let me go head over to my local apple store to shell out 30 dollars for another lightning cable that's gonna break in 3 weeks.

iPhone 5, iOS 7.1

Posted on May 7, 2014 12:46 PM

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Posted on Apr 24, 2017 10:23 PM

I've literally gone through about 5 cables from various brands, from apple to off brands and I'm getting sick of it. I've wasted so much money on replacement cables. I don't think my old Apple cables ever broke, but these lightning ones are garbage. If anyone has a suggestion on one that lasts for than 3 or 4 months please let me know.

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Why do lightning cables break so easily?

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