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Here's a good teardown of an Apple charger which shows where the cost is in the design. http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html

• danso 10y ago
  Yeah I agree. I stupidly said "cables and chargers" when I just meant lightning cables. I haven't had a charger fail on me in any noticeable way. I've never bought a new USB charger because I have so many others lying around that can fill in for a pinch, but I've never considered looking for a third-party laptop brick adapter when needing to replace a lost one.
• kalleboo 10y ago
  > What I don't get is how come the cable part is such lousy quality compared to the sophistication in the PSU part Design
• grapeshot 10y ago
  Apple cables always fall apart because they use the thinnest insulation possible and don't put on proper strain reliefs. Probably just another example of design over common sense. It gets especially bad when you wrap the cable tightly around the sharp plastic hooks on the MacBook power adapter that are supposed to keep everything organized.
  • sosborn 10y ago
    They also seem to be very weak to UV exposure.