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Yeah, if you want to buy the genuine article it sucks that you end up with a knock-off. It's very hard to tell the difference on Amazon where the photo on the p
by Apreche 10y ago
Yeah, if you want to buy the genuine article it sucks that you end up with a knock-off. It's very hard to tell the difference on Amazon where the photo on the product page isn't guaranteed to match the product you will receive. Happens with a lot more than just cables and chargers. I've even seen it with things like kitchen tools.
But that's distracting from the real problem. That problem being that even genuine Apple cables are overpriced and shitty. If Apple provided quality durable cables of various lengths at reasonable prices, nobody would buy buying them from Amazon instead of from Apple. Every time someone goes to Amazon to buy a cable, it's because their Apple one disintegrated.
As for chargers, the Apple ones are just fine, but they only charge one device at a time. There are plenty of small, inexpensive, and high quality charging devices available that can charge 5x or even 10x devices at once. The third party products are just better.
- cstejerean 10y agoIt's definitely not every time. I haven't had any problems with Apple cables for example. But I still buy more on occasion because I have misplaced them, or because I need extras for traveling, for the car, for the office, etc. I am really curious what everyone complaining about Apple cables manages to do to theirs in order to cause so much damage. I suspect most people could benefit from learning how to properly coil a cable. https://www.wired.com/2013/08/tnhyut-coil-cable/ https://www.wired.com/2013/08/tnhyut-coil-cable/
- Retric 10y agoFor longer cables I often find this works even better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkYQWJl3Zv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkYQWJl3Zv8 The advantage is you can get at both ends, and add remove length at will, plus you avoid having excessive tension. Downside is you can't really throw long cables and have them unwind which can be really useful.
- spronkey 10y agoYeah... If Apple oh, I don't know, halved the price of their cables, and maybe went outside the mould a bit with lengths and multi-chargers as you mention, I for one wouldn't bother looking elsewhere.