[tipperjones]

I've found the opposite, Lightning cables routinely failed for me and I haven't had a USB-C cable fail yet, and I've been using them for 7+ years.

Not sure if it's the connector or the build quality, but want to throw in the opposite experience.

[tardedmeme]

I just had to buy more type-C cables because all of mine are broken - always at the cable entering the connector, and I don't coil them tightly - but I've never used Lightning.

[jonathanlydall]

In case you don’t do this already, avoid:

- Pulling on the cable to unplug it, instead ensure you pull on the solid connector on the end.

- Bending at the point of the cable connector, resting the phone upright on the cable + connector when plugged in (e.g. in cup holder in a car) or stretching the cable too long that it causes a bend in the cable at the connector when plugged in.

There was a recent HN post about cable abuse and it said coiling too tight doesn’t itself damage cables (I will add I don’t like how it makes the cable get a memory and wants to kind of recoil itself all the time), but I think the action of too tight coiling incidentally puts more stress on where it joins the connector.

[dTal]

The cables fail from bad design.

The connectors are great.

[rattray]

Aren't there high quality cables available? Eg from companies like Apple or Anker?

I struggle to understand why an Apple lightning cable would be more robust than an Apple thunderbolt cable...

[isametry]

Well at least the metal part of any type-C plug will inherently be more fragile due to the hollow design and manufacturing by stamping out of sheet metal. Whereas for Lightning, it’s a solid machined part.

But as soon as you get to the chip housing and the rest of the cable, it’s anyone’s game I suppose.