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Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - pinkoos - 09-14-2012
I wonder if it "clicks" into the iPhone or just slides in or what?
I'm worried that with the adapter and then a cord hanging off the adapter, there's gonna be issues a la the original Mac mini power cord where the cord would just fall out with any movement of the mini or cord.
In this case, that Lightning connection looks so small and thin, I would be concerned that it would either slide right out or, worse yet, bend or snap.
Re: Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - GGD - 09-14-2012
From the time I first saw this new connector, I was expecting it to have a high failure rate, I expect the flat part that is inserted into the iOS device to snap off.
I hope I'm wrong.
Re: Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - Ken Sp. - 09-14-2012
It has detents on the side so it clicks like the headphone jack.
Re: Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - pinkoos - 09-14-2012
Ken Sp. wrote:
It has detents on the side so it clicks like the headphone jack.
That's good to know. It still appears very fragile, though of course, I haven't seen it in person.
Re: Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - Speedy - 09-14-2012
Way, way past time for a MagSafe style connector. But at least the adapter could have had a two inch cord in the middle.
Re: Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - michaelb - 09-14-2012
It all looks expensive to me.
Re: Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - Black - 09-14-2012
The dock connector was originally in response to the Firewire jacks breaking in the first 2 generations of iPod. Apple is not going to just 'forget' about that and stupidly go back to the same flaw- it -has- to be sturdier than you're thinking, in addition to being in use on much lighter devices (6.5 oz orig FW iPod, 5.6 oz 3rd gen with first dock connector vs 3.5 oz for current Touch, 3.95 oz iPhone 5.)
Re: Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - sekker - 09-14-2012
Standard microusb would have been fine. This is Apple hubris.
Re: Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - decay - 09-14-2012
sekker wrote:
Standard microusb would have been fine.
if you can deal with only 5 pins.
Re: Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile? - testcase - 09-14-2012
I'd love to know if there is any true technical advantage to having a proprietary connector.
Looks to me like the European Community agreed to a micro USB standard and Apple basically tells them to fuck off.