Yah but if it works it works. This thing is built like a fucking tank.
And i took it out for a hour drive to run errands, never lost connection once with it in the passenger seat.
Sure the more "refined" thing is great, but when you really plan on tuning your car, you hide stuff and leave it in so its accesable and you dont loose it. Im tucking this thing up in the dash, bringing the cord down the passenger side of the console so i can just pull the usb and tune. So why does it have to be small and compact when its going to be put up in the dash. Im sorry, 30 bucks when it works and will last beats out over 100 bucks for a piece of cable. Anything over 50 bucks for a cable is ridiculous, no matter what its for, its to hook your car to your computer, not to go back in time and handle a flux compacitor.
And a lil update. Using a real plms cable we had a dropuout, and once that caused nistune to freeze on us because of it. With this i havent had a issue. I dont mean to make it sound like im hostile in my post, but 30 bucks compared to 100 in my book, is worth it. Specially when its not going to be moved around constantly in and out of the car over and over again.