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Isn't that stuff about the cords just anecdotal? I have every power cord I've ever owned for my various Apple products; sometimes I feel like they are taking me

Isn't that stuff about the cords just anecdotal? I have every power cord I've ever owned for my various Apple products; sometimes I feel like they are taking me over. Totally agree on your other points though.

ksk 9y ago
It definitely is anecdotal and I can't speak to your experience. But like I replied to the other comment, Apple instituting a replacement program is as close as you can get to them admitting that it was/is a problem. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204551 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204551
- SpikeDad 9y ago
  Of course it's anecdotal but since it's anti Apple it's immediately accepted as truth since who wants to be pro Apple. I can replay with equal validity that I've NEVER had an Apple cable fail either power or data and that goes back to my Newton 2100 which is still working with original cables. Plus add to that I work in a public library and we loan out cables and MacBook Airs and we've never had any cables fail. Plenty stolen but that's another story. 8-( I've seen PLENTY of people treat their cables without a thought to protecting them from poor treatment. People that pull out the cable using the wire, retrieve their dropped phones and PCs buy reeling up on the cable. There's no cables that can survive that and be cost effective in the quantities that Apple needs to produce. Sure a 3rd party cable maker can but their scale of production is minuscule compared to Apple's.
nowherecat 9y ago
In our home every single power cord or iPhone charger broke at the same spot (we went through quite a few). Very frustrating and I was quite pissed at Apple for a long time, because of that. Today i know that we have simply been handling the cable too carelessly, pulling it out by the cable, having it continuously bent/twisted in a weird way. I know it sounds silly, but it never occurred to me that that kind of stress would be too much for a part that is used on a daily basis. We have one iPhone charger left and since I am making sure to not ever unplug it by pulling the cable or having it twisted or bent it still looks just as good as in the beginning. I am sure Apple could produce a more robust cable if they wanted to, but it would probably not lock slick enough.

ksk 9y ago

It definitely is anecdotal and I can't speak to your experience. But like I replied to the other comment, Apple instituting a replacement program is as close as you can get to them admitting that it was/is a problem. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204551 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204551

SpikeDad 9y ago
Of course it's anecdotal but since it's anti Apple it's immediately accepted as truth since who wants to be pro Apple. I can replay with equal validity that I've NEVER had an Apple cable fail either power or data and that goes back to my Newton 2100 which is still working with original cables. Plus add to that I work in a public library and we loan out cables and MacBook Airs and we've never had any cables fail. Plenty stolen but that's another story. 8-( I've seen PLENTY of people treat their cables without a thought to protecting them from poor treatment. People that pull out the cable using the wire, retrieve their dropped phones and PCs buy reeling up on the cable. There's no cables that can survive that and be cost effective in the quantities that Apple needs to produce. Sure a 3rd party cable maker can but their scale of production is minuscule compared to Apple's.

nowherecat 9y ago

In our home every single power cord or iPhone charger broke at the same spot (we went through quite a few). Very frustrating and I was quite pissed at Apple for a long time, because of that. Today i know that we have simply been handling the cable too carelessly, pulling it out by the cable, having it continuously bent/twisted in a weird way. I know it sounds silly, but it never occurred to me that that kind of stress would be too much for a part that is used on a daily basis. We have one iPhone charger left and since I am making sure to not ever unplug it by pulling the cable or having it twisted or bent it still looks just as good as in the beginning. I am sure Apple could produce a more robust cable if they wanted to, but it would probably not lock slick enough.