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Title: Apple is fed up with counterfeit cables and chargers on Amazon Post by: HCK on October 22, 2016, 04:05:14 pm Apple is fed up with counterfeit cables and chargers on Amazon
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Amazon is full of knockoff products, but if you’re buying genuine Apple-branded cables and chargers sold directly by Amazon and not a third party, you should be OK, right? Well, maybe not.</p><p>Patently Apple (http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2016/10/apple-sues-mobile-star-for-selling-counterfeit-power-adapters-and-charging-cables-through-amazon.html) dug up a lawsuit filed by Apple against Mobile Star LLC, which Amazon identified as the manufacturer of counterfeit cables and power adapters that had been sold as being made by Apple. The complaint says that Apple had purchased the items from Amazon, and tested them interally to determine they were counterfeit. The complaint also cites an Amazon.com customer review claiming one of the adapters caught fire.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3132437/consumer-electronics/apple-is-fed-up-with-counterfeit-cables-and-chargers-on-amazon.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple is fed up with counterfeit cables and chargers on Amazon (http://www.macworld.com/article/3132437/consumer-electronics/apple-is-fed-up-with-counterfeit-cables-and-chargers-on-amazon.html#tk.rss_all) |