Hearthly wrote:
A chum of mine is from a fully Appled family and says they all use knock-off charging cables because they're far better built and break less often than the official Apple ones which cost a zillion pounds each - to the extent that even if Apple fuck them with a software update they're still massively quids in overall.
I can't really comment personally as I only have vague memories of plugging wires into phones to charge them.
A couple of years ago there were a lot of bad ones around, I had a couple that just stopped working after a week. Then I had a women in our sales force who had an issue where her "generic" charger caught fire in the car. Her young daughter and an ice cream were involved as well so I never got to the bottom of it
So I had to issue an email telling 100 people to chuck out any generic kit and go and buy Apple stuff.
So until a couple of months ago I was all apple cables etc, then I put in 8 or so new sockets with USB in the house and want to have cables in them all the time for convenience, so I took a punt on a cheap pack of 6 from Ebay, the seller has shifted 1000 of them so figured they must be ok.
They have been great, so not sure if the Chinese or whoever can rip these off with DRM or if Apple license them to people??