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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @05:00PM (#10630039)
If using a product in the most obvious and intuitive way causes it to fail, it's the product's fault, not the user's. It should be redesigned so the obvious use is the correct one. Plenty of laptop power supplies have cables designed to wrap around the brick for storage and don't have failure rates like this.

Apple has not implemented proper strain relief, with a perforated sleeve (presumably for aesthetic reasons), and they still use a thin, over-flexible wire. Their own website shows the cable wrapped tightly--on a page about avoiding cable damage, no less. (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201600)

Blaming the user for, essentially, not being an engineer is common in the tech industry, and it really doesn't help anything, especially from a company that claims to be (and generally is!) as user-friendly as Apple.

Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by hobs on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @06:50PM (#10630544)
And that is why they have an internal kbase article talking about that cable fraying, and have safety kbases on that as well, or did 5 years ago when I worked there.

- Former apple support guy