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vidarh on Nov 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google engineer writing Amazon reviews on USB-C ca...

> Not quite bulletproof, but not bad (and I was lucky I didn't damage the phone instead).

This is one reason why I don't mind if the cables aren't that difficult to break. I'd rather the cable break than my devices.

organsnyder on Nov 4, 2015 [–]

It's my understanding that the entire spec is engineered this way intentionally: The wear items are on the cable rather than the device.

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