It's Official: My Phone Is Making Me Mad ... And Sick

[Seth]

I just got my new Iphone 5s activated yesterday. it's different but I can get used to it. My biggest gripe is Apple made IOS7 smart enough to detect whether you are using a third party lightning cable. If it isn't an Apple brand cable ($20-30) with a special chip in the USB plug then it throws a message saying this accessory may not work right. Just about every other cell phone vendor out there has gone to the micro USB cable for charging but not Apple. No, they have to make a proprietary charging cable and then force you to drop $20-30 on a new one if you break or lose the original.

[Flysmallie]

That's true on the cables Seth but I have spent a lot replacing those micro USBs as well and more cash repairing the charging ports. Those micros and kids don't mix well. Got all the girls iPhones and that problem went away. But I do think its BS that Apple changed the port design with the 5.

[Flysmallie]

Dell used to do the same thing with their laptops. It could tell if you had another brand of charger plugged in. It would still power the laptop but wouldn't charge the battery. Total BS.

[LarrySTL]

I hope you all know how happy you are making me that I have an Android 4G that had been out about a year when I got it, and that I paid an entire $ 1 for it on an online Black Friday sale last year. Still took me 2 mos to feel like I could use it without cussing though.