[oxfordmale]

It is not the charging cables, but the actual chargers itself. They are eye watering expensive if you buy them from Apple directly.

Amazon and eBay are flooded with fakes that can be life threateningly dangerous. I can see why some people prefer to buy from Apple rather than figuring out what brands are actually not going to burn your house down.

[Gigachad]

I just had a look. The charging bricks they use are USB-C (the phones come with a lightning to C cable now) and cost $30 AUD. That seems very cheap.

[oxfordmale]

Versus $0 for all the chargers I have collected over the years.

[Gigachad]

Use those then? They all work on the iPhone

[Dylan16807]

Goodbye goalposts.

[andyjohnson0]

Good point re dangerous fakes, but I wonder how persuasive it is in practice. Ive occasionally seen teardowns of fire-risk power blocks on hn, but (genuine question, because idk) is that a mainstream concern?

[oxfordmale]

I bought a 100W Apple MacBook charger from Amazon. After using it for a few hours, it has a burnt smell. I can't be the only one that experienced this.

[andyjohnson0]

If its an oem charger them I'm not surprised at all. Imo its just not worth the risk.