Is it just me or does the Lightning adapters look fragile?

[pinkoos]

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.

[GGD]

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.

[Ken Sp.]

It has detents on the side so it clicks like the headphone jack.

[pinkoos]

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.

[Speedy]

Way, way past time for a MagSafe style connector. But at least the adapter could have had a two inch cord in the middle.

[michaelb]

It all looks expensive to me.

[Black]

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.)

[sekker]

Standard microusb would have been fine. This is Apple hubris.

[decay]

sekker wrote:
Standard microusb would have been fine.

if you can deal with only 5 pins.

[testcase]

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.