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Except that they put shitty connectors that fray much quicker than normal "bendy" type connectors running out of this thing.
e.g. who here has an official apple cable that's ended up with wires showing courtesy of their aesthetics over performance attitude?
That was the case for a while, but I'm happy to report that the cables they are shipping now have strain relief that is about 2-2.5 times as long and seems a lot less likely to have the cable pull out of the strain relief. I got the old type with my iPhone 4 (end of 2010), and the new type with my iPhone 4S (late 2011), iPad G3 (early 2012), and the separate iPad charger I bought a month or so ago.
With cables like these new ones, I am actually convinced that it is worthwhile buying the real thing from Apple[1], as opposed to the cheapo cable from China, which a) look horrible, and b) don't seem to hold up all that well.
Presumably you can see the effect of the longer insulation when you visit an Apple Store. Correlation, not necessarily causation: I saw the first of these redone cables just after Steve died.
[1] Don't get a cable for 20 currency units, though -- spend the extra ten and get either an iPad charger or an iPhone charger with it.
May 21, 2012, 4:38:30 PM
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