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0 pointsKennyBlanken2y ago0 comments

> They majorly fucked up the design.

> There is nothing holding it to the case, only the few solder points to a thin PCB. They did not care.

Which is more plausible: that a company infamous for its shitty warranty/return policies accidentally/incompetently designed the USB connector to have weak physical support, or purposefully designed it to be weak so that people would be forced to keep buying replacements?

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dmitrygr2y ago

I am unprepared to claim malice here since I do not have enough information, and I would not levy an accusation like than without more evidence than I have. But it definitely is obvious to anyone who has ever made anything that real humans really use in the real world that this is a poor way to affix a USB-C connector if you intend for it to last

vsnf2y ago

I’ve worked at companies that ostensibly sell a hardware thing, and that thing was very poorly designed. It had everything to do with a combination of inexperience, hubris, and sloppiness, and absolutely nothing to do with malice. Some places are likely evil, but others are just dumb.

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