Snort, Blackberry, the original corporate phone & the only smartphone to have made it into the white house uses crappy connectors?!? Sure sport, whatever you say, what ever you say.
I've never snapped the central post off a Samsung which is your preferred phone but there are a few in that drawer at work. Samsung is crap now too, right? Will you now turn to HTC as the source of non-crappy phones? Maybe ZTE is more your speed, though.
Aww gee, you found a badly engineered Lightning cable that might rip away on the cable side of the connector. That certainly addresses my point that micro-USB has a weakness on the terminal side with an easily snapped central post, or at least it does in your mind. Good for you. You really argued that one well... Tell me again how lightning without that fragile central post is just as fragile as micro-usb that has one? Run it through your mind. Do you see where you didn't address my point? Still no? Well there is an expression "None are so blind as those who refuse to see" that applies.
I don't know what is is with micro-USB that gives it cult status as you have refused to answer every time I asked.
Clearly you're willing to live with crap as long as Apple (hope I didn't scare you there with that name, you flinch every time I use it) doesn't control it. Except that that's not true either, a connector similar to micro-jack could fairly easily be adapted to the task, isn't controlled by you know who (let you off easy this time), but you object to that too for equally feeble reasons.