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For those of us not up on the nuances of Amazon's supply chain, please explain how that stops a counterfeiter from slapping an mFI sticker on a counterfeit box.

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I just stick to buying Amazon Basics or from the Anker store.

I’ve replaced all of my family’s iOS chargers and cables with Anker — far more durable than Apple’s!

I still mostly stick with Apple products when it comes to notebook power, especially for the 15” MBP.

And my cats don't chew on the Anker cables. For some reason, it seems a lot of cats just love to chew on Apple branded cords - specifically. I guess they smell/taste good to them. I've worked in electronics a good part of my life and have hundreds of all sorts of different types of cables, but the cats ONLY seem to love Apples cords for some reason. I have to warn guests when they whip out their chargers lol.

Fun fact -- back when I worked at Apple as a Software Engineer, we used Anker cables. Not on occasion either, primarily.

In fact, our team time after time received a huge shipments of Anker cables (think 1000-2000 cables in their retail boxes)

So internally Apple knew their cables wasn't as good as Anker?

At least among their software engineers, very much so.

If Anker got a cent for each time a cable of theirs got plugged into an iPhone prototype that never left the HQ, they'd still be a huge company.

Isn't that the biggest failure of Apple? I think the original Anker Powerline cable were good, but not great. The Powerline II was perfect. And it was only a small changes in material and design, it doesn't even break. ( The Powerline has slightly longer "tail" at the end of the plug so it doesn't take as much strain )

If Apple Engineers are not using its own Apple products than there is something very wrong.

Which are the top non-ad results when I search for mFI iPhone cable.

Not sure if it’s even possible to commingle with AmazonBasics inventory

Amazon's house brands cannot be commingled with.

If Trump actually cared about protecting America, he would be sending more resources towards the CBP officers who inspect and seize counterfeit products instead of security theater at the border.

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