Well, Apple should’ve included fucking chargers, or they could’ve just given people a voucher that they could use to get a “free charger,” or use it to knock a few dollars off at the time of purchase.<br><br>Sure, it’s technically the same as charging someone that needs it, but I’m going to bet there are some folks who are going to buy them and expect to get a charger.  I provide IT support for a large enterprise and this is going to become a big fucking deal at some point for someone that’s going to bitch at me about it and I don’t fucking like it.<br><br>Honestly, I get that we want to reduce eWaste—but who the fuck is throwing charging bricks out?!  I just keep collecting them, because I like having them everywhere in my house.  It’s too bad that NOBODY can seem to make a damn charging cable that’s durable AND reliable/compatible.  Apple makes the most reliable/compatible charging cables, because I’ve never had one fail before it look like it went through a wood chipper or spent time on the surface of the sun—but they’re super short, I hate their rubbery coating that snags on everything and the strain relief is fucking garbage and it always fails.  <br><br>Aftermarket cables are like industrial strength para-cord that carries current and data, some have amazing strain relief, but I’ve had so many that failed at where the strain relief meets the part that inserts into the phone, because they bent or broke off and were extremely fragile—or I’ve just had cables fail for absolutely no fucking reason.  Either the chip in the connector fried, or the spacing between the contacts isn’t as perfect as the ones Apple sells, so the slightest amount of wear from a few weeks of daily use is enough to introduce enough slop that they stop working.<br><br>I saw someone that made a universal system that had little plugs and a MagSafe style connector, but the dongle that stuck out was too big and it just seemed fucking stupid, because I’d lose the connector or I could just get a Qi charger.<br><br>The bottom line is that the last GOOD charging cable that Apple made was back when their 30-pin connectors actually had a locking mechanism that you had to depress in order to remove the cable.  I say that not because I liked using those awful things, but because I still have one that came with an iPod Nano I got in 2006, and I had two iPhones that used it.  I’ve never had a lightning cable that gets regular use last more than a year, and still remain in pristine shape.  The reason iPhone Chargers fail is because the short cables lead to accidental yanks at extreme angles if it falls off the bed, night stand, or something like that.