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My feelings about mixing actual news/rumors with giant ads aside, Anker stuff is really high quality. I have several Anker products and have always been very pleased.

I will never use a 3rd party Apple replica they don’t work overtime

Sorry, but this is a gross and thus incorrect oversimplification. There are lots of trashy cables out there that don't work, or work for a while but then die. Anker stuff isn't among them. In my experience, Anker's are as reliable or more so than the Apple cables.

I wish the warranty were longer; over time, any cable can experience strain and stop working. But for what you pay, the Anker stuff is a very good value.

There is more reason than price to buy never-ever original apple-Cables:

Jonathan Ive is not only manish about "thinness" of MacBooks and IOS-devices, he is also manish about "cable-thinness":

I had to replace nearly ALL original apple-charging cables of IOS-devices by now because the exterior isolation of the cables was more and more broken and fell apart. these important cables are too thin, the copper core as well as the outer isolation!

cables from Belkin, Anker or the very well done Lindy (swiss-made) are made for eternity. maybe also other third parties, but personally I have only practical experience with these three.
they are lightyears in front of apple regarding quality:
always much better and reliable also for all-day use (not only to look at them in apple-stores, but in daily use) , never more expensive, but nearly always even less costly. Same for Thunderbolt cables (just bought some from OWC, also lightyeras better and less pricy than the orignal low-quality made by apple) , adaptors, and other things.

original apple cables are nothing but garbage in comparison to many third-party cables.

BTW: same for the original 60 or 75 W chargers for Macbooks and macbook Pros:

the thin cable between the charger and the books is not at all well isolated - so one day the isolation begins to fall into little parts. also because of the too thin and not mechanically protecting isolation the too thin copper core breaks - even if the isolation is not yet gone. you can feel it because when half-broken this part becomes more and more hot as a result of multplication of electrical resistance) It is a shame that millions of users have to pollute the environment just because of well functioning chargers, which have a not-replacable, bad designed low-voltage cable part.... not regarding the financial side (apple AC/DC chargers are very expensive) and the danger by undetected short-circuit (might set something on fire)....

Anker makes great quality cables. I bought several connectors and other accessories from them.

Anker is awesome. Exceeds my expectation each and every time.

"Macrumors, "may" receive a small payment.....pretty sure you WILL... no may about it.

That being said, agree with above. Anker makes good stuff.