I worked cellular retail for 8 years I’ve never really seen fried pins on iPhones. The frayed cables are pretty much inevitable especially if it is apples first party cables. Shockingly I have had contamination in usbc ports though. It caused several devices of mine to no longer charge due to corrosion. Still not sure what exactly caused it but I suppose it was juice from a vape that leaked into the connector. Basically fried my laptop c ports, my iPads port and my pixel’s port. I still think the move to c was pretty necessary.

Only complaint is cables that have contaminants can easily travel between devices now.

Other than that the protocol support is all over the place.

[–] cujo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Everyone I know who uses an iPhone has had fried pins on the cable, not necessarily on their device. No one I know personally has had any issues with USB-C.

Though both experiences are anecdotal, I think we can take this away from our conversation at least: no cable design is perfect. Lol!

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consistent in that they used the same type of charger for almost all their devices after they established it. Mini-USB outdoes them in ubiquity, but the connector is usually a piece of shit.

[–] Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mini-USB wasn't very common. Micro-USB was common.

[–] ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Right, that one. My point about micro-usb being good pretty much only because everyone uses it still stands. USB-C fixed all of my problems with it.

[–] Amilo159@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Consistent in connecting /charging on first try, compared to micro usb.