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darkvader said:

Because Apple likes to charge highway robbery prices for cables.  They always have.

The chances that's in any way significantly different than any other Thunderbolt cable are ZERO.  It's a standard, anybody building a cable is going to use a similar design. 

As much as I agree with you, I’ve annoying found just the basic Apple lighting cables to have much higher longevity than just about any cable I’ve found. Like everyone, I bought a bunch of cheap and often not cheap cables that have braided sheaths ect but many die in a week, month, or months. However, the Apple ones seem to last years, even when the inner wires are showing. 

12pro owner here. I’m trying the 15pro max as my first max phone. I work on a remote mine site and use my phone in the sun a lot and it murders the battery. After three years, my MagSafe battery is my life line. 

I found the silicone case lasted years on my iPhone 6 but on my 12pro with sharper edges, when dropped, it concentrates more energy into the corner. This quickly cracks the underlying plastic. I switched to leather and it is much better for durability. I think I might switch beck to silicone for my 15pro max with its slightly rounded edges as I’m pretty sure the fine woven will look like trash quickly due to my dirty job.

I’ll never buy a folding, flip or scrolling phone or tablet. My work environment is to harsh and dusty for any of these mechanisms to last. Water tight and next to no moving parts for me thanks. I do like the sound of possibly solid state haptic buttons on future iPhones.

The amount of “safe space” and sanitised emojis now is ridiculous. I’m not violent or even into guns but I lament the old pistol being replaced with a water pistol. I wish you could delete the emojis you don’t use, or the regularly user emojis memory was larger so it could push your 200 most used emojis to the front.