Sure. Apple is going to open themselves up to a class action lawsuit by selling non compliant cheap cables. Did you take your non compliant cheap cable back to Apple and get your money refunded?
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Apple's Anti-Counterfeit Team Has Targeted Over 1 Million Listings on Instagram and Other Marketplaces in the Past Year
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Was the jacket extra thick or something? Otherwise, difference beteen 16 and 22 gauge would be pretty visible. Just curious how far the charade went.
That is not entirely true. Remember a few years back when Apple let people trade in their fake chargers for a genuine one, at cost? The company was more concerned about keeping people alive than making money on those replacement chargers.
They brought this "scourge" of flooded fake Chinapple chargers on themselves by not including one of their own with a new $1250 iPhone
Step 1: Stop including chargers with iPhones to "save the environment"
Step 2: Count the number of houses burned down ftom faulty counterfeit Apple chargers.
Step 1: Stop including chargers with iPhones to "save the environment"
Step 2: Count the number of houses burned down ftom faulty counterfeit Apple chargers.
Exactly, it's so tiresome watching people on this forum default to assigning some noble motivation behind Apple's decisions when it's so clearly all about their business and not about the customer. When will people understand that what's best for the customer and what's best for a business rarely align. If a company does something that benefits you, the customer, understand that the other side of the coin is something that benefits them even more -- and they only care about their side of the coin. I suppose some people really buy into the "market forces" myth 😂
😂😂😂 yeah, like when car companies recall parts on their vehicles, they just really care about the safety of their customers LOL it has absolutely nothing to do with lawyers shouting in their ear about about lawsuits
You might want to engage a bit of logic. Offering genuine Apple chargers as replacements for fake ones supplied by scammers has no comparison with car manufacturers recalling faulty products.
They are motivated by the exact same thing: covering their own backside. Are you saying Apple offered genuine chargers out of the kindness of their own heart? The statement "The company was more concerned about keeping people alive" is one of the funniest things I've read on this site in years.
Given the durability of the chargers that come with iPhones, I'd have to assert that even the Apple supply chain is inundated with counterfeit chargers 🤣
I ran into a bunch of computer power supplies with really thin wires going to all of the connectors in a PC. The wires were so thin, I was shocked. They were made by a third (fourth?) tier vendor, who contacted us so try to get us to sell their crap. Yeah, nope. Hard no... If the wires are that crappy, I can only imagine the traces on the boards and the missing gaps, caps, grounds, and fuses. In shady computer parts, you often get less than what you pay for.
Counterfeit products and software is a huge issue in some areas. I was a sub for local reseller that was selling counterfeit Microsoft products. Windows, Office, even Microsoft mice. I finally got sick of it, and confronted him, and told all of his customers. One was a credit union, and he was happy buying stuff for the credit union! I was astounded.
A few weeks later, someone called us looking for Office, and were quoting his prices for that software. They accused me of trying to trick them, and rip them off. That guy was selling full Office Professional for less than our cost for a copy of Word.
But, yeah, there were counterfeit HP products, Cisco, 3Com, NetGear, and on and on. Counterfeiters will copy damn near everything that they think they can make a profit off of. I've run into counterfeit MacBook Pro batteries, back when they were removable. I also ran into a couple of fake iPhone chargers that my mom got from a local convenience store. They looked really close to the real ones. Like amazingly close...
A few weeks later, someone called us looking for Office, and were quoting his prices for that software. They accused me of trying to trick them, and rip them off. That guy was selling full Office Professional for less than our cost for a copy of Word.
But, yeah, there were counterfeit HP products, Cisco, 3Com, NetGear, and on and on. Counterfeiters will copy damn near everything that they think they can make a profit off of. I've run into counterfeit MacBook Pro batteries, back when they were removable. I also ran into a couple of fake iPhone chargers that my mom got from a local convenience store. They looked really close to the real ones. Like amazingly close...
Exactly and trying to save a buck or two on a seemingly “it’s the same” product could result in being flattened financially because of a fire accident or in the worst of all cases, fatal ones...
We don’t really see it most of the time, but sometimes that charger costing $5 more than elsewhere it’s not always only the brand, it can be extra tolerances, extra QA (albeit, yes, some things are hideous at Apple currently especially software side), etc
Someone that makes a < $5 MagSafe charger likely had to cut some corners somewhere?
Nintendo made a quality AC adapter for the 3DS. They charged $9.99 for it retail. An AC adapter/cable combo doesn’t need to cost $99 for it to be quality.
god. The amount of elitism on this forum is infuriating.
The MagSafe power bricks and the supplied iPhone USB cables and earbuds were the worst. I mean the genuine Apple stuff. The outer insulation either comes off or the inner shielding breaks and your charging cable lights up in green. 🤷♂️
Glad there’s aftermarket cables and the cables are not attached to the chargers anymore. I do still buy the earbuds because the sound and microphone are unmatched for the price. They last a couple months up to a year.
Agreed. This finding/report seems like Amazon with the whole USB-C cables issue all over again unbeknownist to anyone till too late.
There a few, legitimate business on IG ... Novalook dumbells in Ontario (Guelph, ON specifically) is one such business. I was VERY sceptical buying dumbbells from them and like promised delivered in 1.5 days after purchase without fuss/issue. But anything electronic nah not buying, not even supplements - I’ll go to the source or more reputable larger seller for that.
Honestly you could be right but Apple’s bottom line isn’t really affected by sales not coming to it from accessories - they’ve most likely factored into that for decades (from cables to adapters etc).
I think it’s more about protecting their brand name and all products and customer satisfaction associated to the brand. illiminate the fakes/junk - no more pishposh talk of such and Apple in the same sentence that creates shockwaves amongst customers.
The insulation on the interior wires was extra-thick, so when you stripped it it was almost entirely rubber with just a few strands of weirdly stiff, springy wire inside. From the outside the thickness was completely normal. Even if you peeled back the black outer jacket, it still looked more or less like you'd expect.
It would have been bad enough if the ultra-thin wires had been pure copper, but copper-plated something else was a whole other level of blatantly intentional fraud.
I'm pretty sure we kept one for the hall of shame, I should dig it up and post a photo.