Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad screens

Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by iudqnolq on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:32PM (#36927227)

The USB-c male connector is deliberately designed to break so that if you stress a plugged in setup you'll break the cable instead of the connector soldered into your phone, which is harder to repair. Maybe they misinterpreted that?

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by Miraste on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:44PM (#36927304)

Notably, Lightning is designed to do the opposite. Whoops, the 1 cent connector broke, time for a new iPhone.

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by Zinu on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:14AM (#36928045)

What do you mean? How can the connector in the phone break when it’s just a hole?

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by KerrAvon on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:29AM (#36928130)

USB mini/micro B ports can break off the PC board when they’re not anchored solidly.

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by Fnoord on Monday July 31, 2023 @09:58AM (#36942549)

This was a flaw on the Nokia N900. Or at least, on some of the devices.

I solved the issue by using TOPK magnetic cables. The magnet would remain in the port (microUSB, lightning, or USB-C, not sure about miniUSB but I got like one device which uses that), and all the cables would work with it. I even leave them connected (the LED does not draw much power and I got solar anyway) which allows me to quickly start or stop charging a device. Which, given I got quite a few, is very useful. Another issue is I keep getting leftover microUSB but need more and more USB-C for which the feature isn't very important (the more USB-C I'd have, the easier it'd be to stop using magnetic cables).

The exception is my MBP as it has a MagSafe (v3, my wife's MBP and my old MBP having v2) but I forgive Apple for that; its very useful and probably where TOPK got their inspiration from.

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by comex on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:05AM (#36928614)

According to another comment, there are springs that wear out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927409

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by KerrAvon on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:28AM (#36928121)

I’ve had lots of USB mini/micro B ports do this on various devices (not C so far). I’ve never even heard of it happening to a Lightning port, and I’ve been through a lot of iDevices over the past decade.

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by kaba0 on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:04AM (#36928610)

It’s not the connector that physically breaks, it’s the spring-y part that holds the cable tight. In lightning ports, that part is on the female side, while in USB-C it is on the easier to replace male side.

With that said, it’s not a common problem in my personal experience of using previously used iphones daily for another 2 years.

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by kmeisthax on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:45PM (#36927309)

Micro-USB had the opposite problem: all the wear would go to the female socket - i.e. the part you had to fix with a soldering iron. It's possible that they're just not aware that USB-IF fixed this design flaw.

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Re:Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on unauthorized iPad sc... by thedanbob on Sunday July 30, 2023 @10:17AM (#36931356)

Interesting, TIL. I guess it's not perfect, I had to replace the USB-C port on a phone after the center post got ripped out.

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