I like ,Avnet I tipped cables and this is my third attempt. It seems to be performing well on my lightning iPad and iPhones. But 2 months in and my original tip is blown and no longer works with any of my devices. Lucky for me, I spent the extra $10 and got a set of spare tips. Unlucky for me, my backup lightning tip is starting to fail and it only charges right side up and I have to fiddle with it. For a $30 cable I was hoping to get more than a few months use out of it. I’m not sure this is better than just buying the cheap cables from Amazonmand throwing them away after a month or two. I guess I have to go back and buy even more tips, but for $10 for a set of tips and getting only one lightning, this becomes a pretty expensive consumable.
I do like the flexible hinge. IPads are just terribly designed from a cable management pov. That connector always gets in the way and if/when you drop it, the cable always gets crunched. The magnetic breakaway design helps this a lot and the hinge adds another level. But I’m not sure if a simple 90 degree connector wouldn’t be superior and more reliable. Moving parts are generally not a good idea in terms of reliability as a rule, so I was leery from the start, but I wasn’t expecting the tips to fail so soon.