<story><title>More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-cables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I would just never buy their cables or chargers, as virtually every cable I have from them is wrapped up in electrical tape.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I ask this a lot of times that I see someone complain about the quality of Apple cables: what the hell are you doing to your cables? I&amp;#x27;ve still got 30 pin cables with cracked plastic on the 30 pin end, but they still work. After over 10 years of buying Apple devices that have cables, I count one cable that has gone bad.&lt;p&gt;More of a rhetorical question I guess, as we&amp;#x27;re just trading anecdotes. But I find it interesting that some complain about the quality of Apple cables, whereas I have piles of them that just refuse to die.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>As a loyal Apple user, I humbly suggest that maybe this would be a lot less of a problem if Apple itself sold better cables for a more reasonable price? I have no problem going into an Apple store to buy overpriced things. I would just never buy their cables or chargers, as virtually every cable I have from them is wrapped up in electrical tape. The funny part of this story to me is why people would buy even cheap cables that are branded Apple when you can get quality, very high-reviewed cables from vendors like Anker.&lt;p&gt;edit: In retrospect, I don&amp;#x27;t have any complaints about the chsrgers. I&amp;#x27;ve never bought a store charger because the ones that come with devices work just fine. It&amp;#x27;s the cables that I have issue with. Even with things like the HDMI-lightning adapter ($50), they go to pieces without being under heavy use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>oldmanjay</author><text>I see a lot of people unplug their MBPs at the end of the day, and wrap the cable so tightly around the power brick it&amp;#x27;s like they&amp;#x27;re trying to protect its chastity</text></comment>
<story><title>More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold on Amazon are fake</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/19/amazon-fake-apple-chargers-cables/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mikestew</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I would just never buy their cables or chargers, as virtually every cable I have from them is wrapped up in electrical tape.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I ask this a lot of times that I see someone complain about the quality of Apple cables: what the hell are you doing to your cables? I&amp;#x27;ve still got 30 pin cables with cracked plastic on the 30 pin end, but they still work. After over 10 years of buying Apple devices that have cables, I count one cable that has gone bad.&lt;p&gt;More of a rhetorical question I guess, as we&amp;#x27;re just trading anecdotes. But I find it interesting that some complain about the quality of Apple cables, whereas I have piles of them that just refuse to die.</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>As a loyal Apple user, I humbly suggest that maybe this would be a lot less of a problem if Apple itself sold better cables for a more reasonable price? I have no problem going into an Apple store to buy overpriced things. I would just never buy their cables or chargers, as virtually every cable I have from them is wrapped up in electrical tape. The funny part of this story to me is why people would buy even cheap cables that are branded Apple when you can get quality, very high-reviewed cables from vendors like Anker.&lt;p&gt;edit: In retrospect, I don&amp;#x27;t have any complaints about the chsrgers. I&amp;#x27;ve never bought a store charger because the ones that come with devices work just fine. It&amp;#x27;s the cables that I have issue with. Even with things like the HDMI-lightning adapter ($50), they go to pieces without being under heavy use.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ashark</author><text>Same question. I abuse the hell out of the half-dozen Apple cables in my house (2x macbook, a few ipad&amp;#x2F;phone)—roughly bunch them up and toss them in a bag or drawer all the time, yank them out of walls with little care, &lt;i&gt;et c&lt;/i&gt;. My usual position for my Macbook at home puts the cable at an awkward, crimped angle and I really ought to stop that.&lt;p&gt;Plus I&amp;#x27;ve had my kids tripping over them, folding them, &lt;i&gt;playing tug of war with them&lt;/i&gt;. At least once a week something happens to one of my cables that probably &lt;i&gt;ought&lt;/i&gt; to break it. Not one has broken.&lt;p&gt;WTF are people doing with their cables that&amp;#x27;s worse than what I do?</text></comment>