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Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by e44858 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @09:28PM (#37491058)
I've had several lightning cables fail from moisture getting from my fingers onto the exposed contacts and causing galvanic corrosion. The tube from USB-C seems to prevent that.
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Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by Wojtkie on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @11:44PM (#37491933)
Ah that explains why all my cords have a really tarnished lead.
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Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by ugexe on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @09:44AM (#37496659)
Are you sure its a tarnished lead? Lots of lightning cables have one tarnished lead (often on each side) from arcing. If I remember correctly using such a cable in a new iPhone could even damage the matching pin inside the phone, leading to the situation where it would start arcing on a non-broken cable (damaging the same leads on the new cable).
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Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by arijun on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @01:58AM (#37492734)
Who grabs a cable by the metal bit?
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Re:iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus by pindab0ter on Friday September 15, 2023 @07:26AM (#37521395)
"Your average user" does.
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