Filip Brož For many users, just one charger for their iPhones or iPads, which they receive from Apple in the original packaging, is not enough, so they go to the market for more. However, the Internet is flooded with hundreds of fakes, which you need to watch out for...
The original Apple iPad charger will come out to 469 crowns, which not everyone wants to pay, and when a customer finds a practically identical charger, for which the merchant states that it is not an original, but the quality is still the same, the significant difference in price is often decisive. A charger for a few dozen instead of a few hundred crowns, who wouldn't take it.
But if you come across a really bad counterfeit, the charger can turn into a dangerous device that threatens your health. It has already happened more than once that non-original chargers have electrocuted people. He wrote about the fact that fakes are really not as good as the original in an extensive professional analysis Ken Shirriff.
The truth is that at first glance the chargers look exactly the same, but when we look from the inside we can already find fundamental differences. In an original Apple charger you will find quality components that use all the internal space, while in a counterfeit charger you will find lower-end components that take up less space.
The other big differences are in the security measures, and one of them is more than obvious. The original Apple charger uses many more insulating elements. In places where insulation is completely self-evident and should not be missing, you will have a hard time looking for it in a counterfeit charger. For example, the red insulating tape used by Apple around the circuit board is completely missing in fakes.
In the original charger, you will also find various heat shrink tubes that add extra insulation for the wires in question. Due to poor insulation and insufficient safety spaces between the cables (Apple has four millimeter gaps between the high and low voltage cables, the counterfeit pieces are only 0,6 millimeters), a short circuit can very easily occur and thus endanger the user.
Last but not least, there is a big difference in performance. The original Apple charger charges stably with a power of 10 W, while the counterfeit charger only with a power of 5,9 W and can often experience interruptions in charging. As a result, original chargers charge devices faster. You will find a detailed analysis including many technicalities on Ken Shirriff's blog.
and above all, the original charger lasts longer than the fake one, I've had an iPhone charger for four years and I still charge it, I also had a non-original one, but it stopped working after a year, once I put it in the socket and it immediately started smoking, since then I've he said that I will never buy any fakes again, I'd rather buy an original for 5 smejd than 4 hundred smejd, because on the one hand, I won't save anything and in the worst case, one risks destroying the device itself, you need a smejd charger, it can send a higher value of current into the device than it has, I don't know but maybe it is. But there are iPhone chargers, e.g. Belkin, which are supported and are of better quality than the original, but they also cost 50, there you have to decide on such a charger, you save a maximum of XNUMX kc compared to the original
Out of nostalgia, I sometimes use a 13-year-old FireWire charger for an iPod 1 with a FW-DOCK cable from an iPod 3, and thanks to the larger cables, I can charge the iPad 2 faster with it than with the supplied original USB charger.
wow! I want it!
A "higher current value" will certainly not let it in there, because the device only takes as much current as it needs. At most, it could have a higher voltage…
and what about the cable? Does it matter that it is not an original piece?
no, but it happened to me that the iP sometimes didn't want to charge.... solid wtfi... however, a non-original cable cannot damage the phone - unless it is wired incorrectly...
yo-yo, sir, or the ladies from the AppleMix promoted here could certainly do the trick. We sell exclusively non-original Chinese Suntas. chargers, cables, adapters are mostly badly molded, they don't fit, they don't work until the end of the year... (charger fork, charger, monitor adapter and other things were bought, everything was ausus :) )
The worst thing is that the production price will be practically identical - a few crowns. Apple's margin will thus be around 90%. It's a shame that you can't see inside, so you can't tell the difference between a good and a bad non-original charger. So far, one of my four has broken.
Unfortunately, I can't say I've had a great experience with original parts. The macbook and worse mb pro chargers can't handle my travel load. the same, perhaps even worse, applies to cables for ipod, ipad. There was even an article on this topic some time ago. So I don't know what you're talking about. Whose charging cable lasted more than a year in total?
Regardless of the quality of the Apple product and its copies, this article is an April Fool's joke. don't be mad at me, but anyone who passed elementary school with A's and better must be laughing until they're clutching their stomachs.
I'm not going to dissect things that are just "a little off" but that completely defy common sense:
1. The original Apple charger uses a 10W stable pace - stable pace is really the terminus technikus at the level of . . .
2. the current doesn't have to flow smoothly - that's nothing against the fact that the voltage is a little tense :-D
3. As a result, original chargers charge devices faster with higher power quality - yes, right. We all have high-quality energy and bad energy in our sockets, but the Apple device selects only the high-quality one :-p
Well, Mr. Brož has 1* for me, because we haven't laughed like this in the office for a long time. Have a nice day everyone
Pepa
it also came to me as an article by a 14-year-old blonde from Prague about the cultivation of agricultural crops and cattle breeding, but for tactful reasons I kept quiet about it and focused on the meaning of the article.
I apologize for my tactlessness, but too much is too much. You got it right and I had fun again :-D. The quality of the article is really so high that I expect TV Hovna to broadcast it tonight :-)
I still suggest using the word rhythm, instead of tempo :-D The reality will probably be that it is probably partly Mr. Google Translate from English and it didn't go through a proper proofreading?
I couldn't have said it better :D
Quoting from the article:
“The original Apple charger charges stably at 10W while
counterfeit charger with only 5,9 W power and can often have
charging interruption.”
So what the *** are you talking about?
quoting from the article:
"genuine chargers charge devices faster"
Do you have anything about power quality?
Well, you're quoting from the article, but edited :-) It's sad that the author didn't acknowledge the editing in the article, it's confusing like that, I agree. I also just copied and quoted from the article. When I read the article again today, it's largely rewritten, so we're done :-p .
Pepa
I also thought before that there was no point in solving it, but then a non-original charger exploded in my socket (with nice effects). It's not very pleasant.
And that's why I keep saying that I'm not rich enough to buy cheap things :D
The point I see is that if I'm willing to pay about 18k for a quality phone, I'd be demented to charge it with an off-brand and low-quality charger. Mainly because I take care of and worry about the battery (apart from the display) the most. Greetings to all Apple lovers :-)
"Apple has four millimeter gaps between high and low voltage cables, fake pieces just 0,6 millimeter"
Wow, there are high voltage cables in the iPhone charger? This means 1000 V — 52 kV. So I don't know if 4 mm is a win. Shouldn't we connect it through a spark gap?
I also had no idea that the physical size of a component in microelectronics is a sign of its quality. Dear Appleman, I like you, but sometimes you need to write (or take over) articles about things you don't understand.
It's a shame that it was translated by someone who knows almost nothing about the given issue. The original article is quite well written...
And this is what they sell as a data cable for the iPhone 5 at T-Mobile in Liberec. There was no other option.