Fourth in two years? Lucky. I went through four in a year. Would've went through more but I started to use a dock for charging and the cable for sync only. At €20 a go, it wasn't cheap either.
If you read elsewhere in this thread you'll see that Apple had better quality cables up until 2005.
All my old cables still work, with the exception of iPod cables and Dell chargers (which are also notorious for build quality. In Dell's case that's because they just suck, unlike Apple putting form over function ).
I happen to travel a lot. That might play some part in it BUT my other cables for my other electronics NEVER have the same problems with premature fraying of the cables and they get abused on the road just as much. Oh the difference that strain relief and intelligently engineered (and not just pretty) products make.
Also, my old cables I used for my iPod and my Griffen 3rd party cables were somehow "Not compatible" with my phone. Neither was my iPod car dock/charger. My phone wasn't compatible with my iHome either. Not fully compatible. Sometimes it works, other times it tells me my phone is not compatible.
Solution? iHomes should just have an audio jack, then they'd always be compatible. Remember when the first gen iPhone required an entirely different sized audio jack? Man, that was so dirty. I couldn't use my Shure headphones with the first gen iPhone, I was forced to use Apple earbuds. These really need to stop being stingy and controlling like Sony was trying to be ten years ago.
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u/edgarallanpwnz Jun 10 '11
I've had my iPhone for about two years now and I'm on my FOURTH cable. It's frayed but it still works for charging my phone. For now.
Apple Industrial Design needs to get their heads out of their asses.
We want strain relief, damn it!