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Apple cables really are terrible. I've had teh cladding come off multiple Lightning cables to the point I never use the Apple cable anymore. I just buy Anker cables without thinking about it.

I honestly don't know how Apple cables can be this bad. More to the point, I don't understand how Apple leadership can tolerate this from a PR perspective.

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Allegedly, one major reason is that Apple has been successfully pressured by Greenpeace to remove PVC from their cables, causing them to be more brittle and fail sooner. https://fee.org/articles/this-is-the-real-reason-your-iphone... is one source, but Apple and Greenpeace themselves tout this "achievement". It seems to me to be just like replacing nuclear power with coal and natural gas power: another casualty of ideological extremism at the expense of the actual environment.

Interesting. What about nylon clad cables? Anker makes these (as do others) and this is what I buy. Why couldn't Apple sell those?

I think the new imac has a braided coating like those fancy anker cables for it's main power cable.

Because they just didn't think about it. Poor engineering.

braided cables? Apple PR is just BS at best

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