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critten
Senior Member
posted: Oct. 4, 2012 @ 3:59p
i dont see if they say this is the real or fake one. second value 60 lol...its only 20 each at the Apple Store
tradecuador
Member
posted: Oct. 4, 2012 @ 4:02p
I don't have good feeling about this deal, first not appears who is the seller? Second the shipping is expected 10 or 15 days. There's not any indicatition that are Apple branded, maybe are only charging not syncing cables. At your risk I wait for the Apple cables.
shastada
Geeky member
posted: Oct. 4, 2012 @ 4:07p
Right, I'll wait until someone is selling knockoffs that are confirmed to work.
food1313
Senior Member
posted: Oct. 4, 2012 @ 4:08p
tradecuador said: I don't have good feeling about this deal, first not appears who is the seller? Second the shipping is expected 10 or 15 days. There's not any indicatition that are Apple branded, maybe are only charging not syncing cables. At your risk I wait for the Apple cables.
It does mention syncing data. Maybe it has the smart chip?
tradecuador said: I don't have good feeling about this deal, first not appears who is the seller? Second the shipping is expected 10 or 15 days. There's not any indicatition that are Apple branded, maybe are only charging not syncing cables. At your risk I wait for the Apple cables.
either get the real ones from Apple or ones that work at Meritline (when available)
as a dealer of iphone accessories and owner of an iPhone repair shop, I will say do not buy these yet. They WILL NOT WORK. The "chip" that sbeerav is referring to has not been cracked by any 3rd party vendor yet. I have verified with my vendors in china and none are producing working cables yet.
longwood8
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Oct. 4, 2012 @ 5:14p
So what is the word on cheap cables just for charging? Is the chip going to be needed for charging the iphone or only for syncing?
Most of the extra cables I need (office, car, briefcase) I could care less if they sync as long as they charge.
realexm
Ancient Member
posted: Oct. 4, 2012 @ 7:40p
On SD someone confirmed they are not genuine Apple. I would not buy ANY cables except Apple cables until we have confirmation the 'chip' has been cracked.
orangecrushv
Senior Member
posted: Oct. 4, 2012 @ 7:52p
Is the *HOT* part of the deal the price or how your phone will feel after it catches fire?
jucus
Senior Member
posted: Oct. 4, 2012 @ 7:59p
realexm said: On SD someone confirmed they are not genuine Apple. I would not buy ANY cables except Apple cables until we have confirmation the 'chip' has been cracked.
LOL, do you expect Apple selling these cables for $6??
christ someone scope it and see if its DP, ethernet or TBOLT . Probably using LVD signalling to mess with folks or a scrambler to work better in low voltage.
rhumbaclave
Member
posted: Oct. 5, 2012 @ 6:47a
These might work for charging. The pins on the two ends of the lightening cables have already been cracked as the power, so that would not be hard to produce. Syncing may not happen for a while as the chipped needs to figured cracked. I am going to wait.
tradecuador
Member
posted: Oct. 5, 2012 @ 1:16p
The description says sync and charging cable that makes me think is a scam!
netadmin
Geeky member
posted: Oct. 5, 2012 @ 1:34p
Based on what has been reported on a few sites, the chip is in the path of the power wire. So it may not even charge.
realexm said: I would not buy ANY cables except Apple cables until we have confirmation the 'chip' has been cracked.
Somewhere a small apple team just got promotions
toprammin
Senior Member
posted: Oct. 5, 2012 @ 5:36p
A post on macrumors says that the guy bought some preorder cables from eBay and got a message telling him that the order was cancelled due to the fake plugs burning out the iphone's power supply.
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