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Good riddance, historically the shittiest cables in existence in terms of build quality and design, and they polluted USB-C with that design, too...
What, you want the thing to be reinforced with a flexible brace near the plug so that the cable won't fray? Fuck you. Oh, your cable frayed near the plug? Fuck you. Buy more cables, it's just e-waste. Not like the environment's going down the toilet or anything.
Now you get shitty USB c 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...
The cables Apple includes now are very flexible braided cables and they are excellent for their purpose. Haven’t had one fail yet, or even show major signs on use. Would like to find any other company making a comparable product, but all the “ultra flexible” cables I’ve found seem to not be as flexible.