Would be hilarious if they recalled them and superglued buttons over the touchscreen interface.

Sure! Why have AI assisted ambulances or firetrucks when you can slap an AI onto ICBM carriers!

Dude, what the fuck!

Is this loss?

Well, to be fair, I never had the idea of sticking pizza toppings with glue… That’s some next level Gordian Knot stuff, right there!

Ok, so life’s becoming one of those Sharknado movies. Noted.

Gotta get that daily lick in!

Fuck you, Netflix. Seriously, fuck you. And the other streaming services, too. Fucking cable companies were less predatory than this…

Not many individuals manage to form a stain of shame on their related species. I guess he is, indeed, remarkable in that way.

True, especially with the xPressMusic ones. They felt as though they had slightly thinner plastic. Had one of the very thin ones, a friend of mine squeezed it between the door and its frame enough to turn it into a flip phone.

On the other hand, had a 6303i I threw at a wall to see what would happen and what happenes was an uncomfortable gash left in one of our clasroom’s walls. Phone was chillin’.

Thank you for the recs, will add them to the list! Maybe it’s time to go from one to many…

Grrrreat… Can anyone please suggest an alternative? I’ve switched to Proton trying to de-Google…

Nokia were doing insanely awesome things with their hardware, beyond basically building phones which were impervious to standard human idiocy (hi, I am an average human idiot).

Real question is, how can I uninstall Zuckerberg…

This truly is a new age of Enlightenment for humanity!

They’re not even trying… It’s obvious this has been a strategy and not a bug, and the ““apology””/excuse sounds like a boilerplate justification from someone who assumes everyone but them is an idiot.

And, realistically speaking, there’s no reason for them to care in the first place. It’s not like everyone’s stopped using Facebook so far for any of their shady shit, and they’ve pulled FAR worse shit than bot accounts.

Everyone now understands the limits and they’ll take full advantage of the buffer before hitting said limit - be less moronic than Musk and you’re golden. It’s really not that high of a bar for them.

Edit, to dispel any potential misunderstanding: I’m not defending them with my last statement, that’s just how it is! If anything, it is our, the consumers’, fault for putting up with this in the first place!

Yep… A Sock Puppeteer’s wet dream…

The flat type was the second to fail, my first was a standard tube-y one… Granted, I bought mine in 2020, I think, so it may account for a drop in quality.

Bought it exactly based on that rationale, no dice in my case. Started developing a crease right where the cable met the nub toward the USB-C end, then it devolved into severed connections - would work if I wiggled it. And I really didn’t rough it up, it was either plugged into my PC, or plugged into a wall charger at night, with "normal’ amounts of flexing (I feel there’s a word for this, but I’m missing it).

It was my favourite from an aesthetic standpoint, too…

I’m honestly not going to argue against their efficacy as transfer mediums, because I didn’t have much contact with the Apple ecosystem other than for work.

But that is another mark against them in my book. What use is a good cable when it’s only usable with a single type of device? They could have the highest transfer rates ever and still wouldn’t serve, like, half of the people who use phones and computers. That’s to say nothing of the myriad other peripherals out there (even vapes use USB-C for charging).

That plus the really poor design/build quality of the cable itself are what make them bad cables.

They really don’t make stuff like they used to, pretty much nobody. And credit where it’s due, Apple have been leading the planned obsolescence movement from the start (their iPhone 3 cables were just as bad as the current ones).

On the other end of the spectrum, I own a single no-name MicroUSB cable. I’ve owned it for, I think, a decade at this point. Maybe even longer than that. It was the cheapest cable I could find over 2m in length, cost me about two bucks back then. I’ve used it for phones, MP3 players, external hard drives, mice - you name it, it’s been plugged in it. It still performs just as well as it did when I bought it, it hasn’t lost its shape, and believe me when I say it received zero preferential treatment.

I honestly lost count of how many USB-C cables have failed me so far. Seriously…