kaladorn

Apple's products are (with some notable exceptions) manufactured with some attention to quality of components and design. The dumb design decisions they've made here and there were not from skimping on quality or design; those are owned by a peculiar 'my-way-or-the-highway' perspective. (The latest things they've done to the Macbooks more or less spiting the graphic designers and others who use their products regularly are one example - the new Macbook has the quality, but odd design decisions are the issue). In terms of charging technology, Apple has elected to develop an expensive approach. They also tend to charge a fair bit of change for licensing. So... lots of people find that a tad hard to swallow. Those people often don't buy apple products. On the other hand, one piece of perspective missing (not counting any misrepresentation of what the actual UL study said...) is how many charge cycles on iDevices have been successfully executed with third party chargers with no bad outcome? I'm guessing it would be in the hundreds of millions or billions. There have been some bad outcomes, but by en large, even the crappy cheap chargers work. They may not offer the best protection and they may shorten battery life, but they work. It is hard to understand people spending $700-1300 on a new iPhone then hooking it to a $12 charger. Penny wise, pound foolish...