Then again, I don't carry it that frequently because the battery life is usually enough. Somebody who puts more wear on them would be more likely to have problems, but I'm not convinced they're so much worse than adapters from other companies.

It was an acknowledged design flaw, and Apple fixed it with more strain relief on later models, and a changed angle for a real fix.

The durability of the charger has little to do with the presence of a design flaw in the cable.

BS. When they introduced the current design they had no strain relief, because Steve Jobs thought they were ugly. Guess what? You need a damn strain relief. Year by year their strain reliefs have gotten longer and longer, but they still have a sharp cutoff (that looks pretty, I'll grant them that) that causes the cable to bunch up and break.

And they've made mistakes with their materials choices as well. My parents had a Magsafe charger by the TV, used when sitting in the sofa. After a couple years, the plastic in the little clip you're supposed to use to wind up the cable reacted with the plastic in the cable, and if you moved it, it just tore the cable sheathing apart.

> more obvious if you go read a tear-down of them

The electronics are solid, I'll grant them that. But in the exterior they made tradeoffs for looks.