Every time this is mentioned, it seems like there are vocal factions insisting that they treat the cables gently but they split and fray, and others insisting that they abuse them but they last forever.
Anecdotally, I've actually seen examples of both.
It's hard to imagine of Apple, but maybe they have high variance in cable quality between batches, or multiple suppliers?
We need a form that asks a bunch of metadata and whether you are satisfied with Apple brand cables. Share that widely (somehow?) and look for correlations.
The biggest concern is the self selection bias… if you’re perfectly happy with the cables would you care enough to respond to such a survey?
Anecdotally, I've actually seen examples of both.
It's hard to imagine of Apple, but maybe they have high variance in cable quality between batches, or multiple suppliers?