Rubber cable

Hi, is there any replacement provided for adaptors or cables where the rubber is worn out and the metal shield is showing ?
I think that the rubber quality of the cables is pretty poor, I had the same problem in the power adaptor and in the ethernet adaptor,
meanwhile I keep in the same working and shipping conditions other non Apple cables and they are not worn out at all!
Thanks

If you compare the plastic that Apple uses on its cables to any other electric cable it is much softer. You could literally cut through it with a fingernail if you wanted to. I have been overly careful when wrapping the charger. I wasted money on two previous chargers, as well as iPhone chargers, and wanted to avoid that this time around. Despite that the cable has split. This is ludicrous! I have a 10 year old extension cable at home that has been put to hard use. Its dirty but not a split anywhere. Its made of hard wearing plastic, the kind that all electric cables are. Cables are not supposed to split, and you shouldn't have to be overly careful with them. You said...
"Correct, wrapping the cable tightly will cause a near right angle at the connection point to the supply. Tightly wrapping cables (especially around those 2 legs) will through repetition fatigue the cable.
That is nonsense, cables are not supposed to do that. You can wrap a PC cable or any other electric cable as tight as you want, they are made to last. One shouldn't have to be as careful as I have been with this last charger cable, and it hasn't even lasted two years. And wrapping the cable around the "legs" on the adapter will fatigue the cable! Isn't that what those two legs are meant for? So using the product as intended will cause it to break. Makes a lot of sense... This may not be a case of deliberate safety violation on the part of Apple, it may be a case of poor endurance testing, and since I am not the only one that this has happened to, failing to listen to consumer feedback and making relevant product adaptations. However I find this unlikely. What are the chances Apple don't know that these cables fail? Draw your own conclusions...

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