It has obvious advantages, but the way it went no further than mini\micro-usb in design department shows it’s flaws even more.
The death of connecting parts was always a concern, and short, smooth format without any kind of a clipse fixation makes it fail to connect after a while like any other with the same production quality.
The overuse of it nowadays leads to bigger failure rates because you now can use cords interchangeably, so these connectors wear off faster than before (not to say your devices have faster charging times and higher discharging rates, so the plug\unplug routine is generally more frequent nowadays).
Your go-to universal cord can charge your phone, earbuds, vape, notebook, video-converter, beatmachine, microphone, gamepad etc. And unless you have a dedicated cord for each one of those, you’d experience them breaking up at surprising speeds.
The two-sided design is it’s crowning jewel, but I could’ve traded it for some better one-sided longer design with some sort of a lock instead. Some DP cords I have have a pair of teeth that can secure the connector in the hole, with a button to release it. It is not possible in Type-C I believe.
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Not an unpopular opinion but a plain wrong one. I’ve had USB C cables for far longer than the devices they connect to, can’t really remember any of the connectors ever giving me trouble I’ve yet to see a cable/connector fail due to wear. It’s a solid spec and the wide range of uses is brilliant.
only issue I’ve ever had with usb-c, was dust. collected in the female port on the phone. sewing needle to clean the port, worked like new again.
well, there was other issues but that’s more a 'bought the wrong cable’s as it was data only and didn’t have pd.
Noo don’t use a metal needle you could short the port. The best thing I found for cleaning them are plastic toothpicks like the ones on the end of a “disposable” flosser.
Switching the cord shouldn’t have fixed the problem, but it had. I blame it on my overabuse of just a bunch of them probably.
Then you can suggest a brand or a price category for them, I guess. The one that failed the last cost me $7 for 3 meters, that is 1,5 chain-place pizzas where I live. The one that came with my generic ps4-clone controller holds noticeably better, but it’s way shorter so it seen way less wear. I guess it’s a product quality + the frequency of how I use just a few of them.
Please try to disagree without gatekeeping (e.g. telling them their opinion is wrong).
Not gonna mod this comment or anything, just giving a warning.
I’ve read so many times that the cable is designed to wear out faster than the jack, and yet I’ve had numerous devices have their USB-C jacks fail.
I still have all of my USB-C cables, even the one that came with my very first USB-C phone. All of them still work and fit fine.
They are objectively the best connectors both in unitality and availability.
This is a pretty unpopular opinion because it’s wrong. I’ve had more lightning ports fail than USBC. Lightning is too small and makes it hard to clean the pocket lint out.
Please try to disagree without gatekeeping (e.g. telling them their opinion is wrong).
Not gonna mod this comment or anything, just giving a warning.
Not just a bad opinion but literally a stupid and wrong opinion.
Yeah let’s put clips in our connector so that one accidental tug destroys the port & the cable /s
A genius, you are not.
While I agree that it’s not a great idea, you’re coming off a little harsh here IMO. 🙄
Well, the opinion is definitely unpopular!
I would also argue that it is on the weak side as opinions go. A lot of what you’re citing as reasons for it not being “up for challenges” just aren’t true in real world usage. Particularly the durability factor. I’ve yet to see a cable fail because of the connector itself, and ports only fail after unusual abuse that I’ve seen, and I’m the family default for android device troubles.
As an example based on your points of objection. This year to date I’ve gone through two different micro usb cables because the connector end failed.
I haven’t had to replace a usb-c at all this year, and only two the entirety of last year. That’s despite a lot of plugging and unplugging because I’m up to six devices on USB-c that take charging daily ( plus some others that need charges less often) and only keep two cables in use at a time.
Last year, I went through maybe three micro usb for two devices total. Back when everything was micro usb, I would go through one of the anker cables with the woven wire cover about every three to four months. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but around that.
It’s veen my experience that the ports in usb-c are also less prone to getting loose, and they’re definitely less prone to damage when the cable gets jerked out.
I’ve never in my life had any USB cord or connector break on any device for maybe 20 years. Only when lending it to someone else did one connector break, once, and they dropped the thing while connected.
I feel like there’s two camps within USB. People who fucking rip their cord out and shove it in again—impatient people I guess. And then there’s people who are careful with their shit.
Maybe a hot take. 🤷♂️
