Apple: 90% of "official" chargers sold on Amazon are fakeOctober 20, 2016 - 15:19 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - 90 percent of Apple chargers on Amazon - even those labelled as the genuine article - are fake, according to a recent lawsuit filed by the Cupertino company, The Verge said. The iPhone-maker is currently suing a company named Mobile Star LLC for trademark infringement, alleging that the firm has been passing off counterfeit Apple chargers as the real thing. In the text of the lawsuit published online, Apple reports buying a number of Mobile Star's chargers from Amazon. These chargers were listed as genuine Apple products being shipped and sold by Amazon. But Apple's engineers said that when the products arrived, they were found to be "poorly constructed, with inferior or missing components, flawed design, and inadequate electrical insulation." And they weren't just fakes; they were dangerous fakes — with the potential to catch fire or electrocute users. As supporting evidence, Apple also describes buying more than 100 "iPhone devices, Apple power products, and Lightning cables sold as genuine" by other sellers on Amazon. Amazingly, the company found that 90 percent of these products were actually fakes. The lawsuit says that when Apple alerted Amazon to the problematic chargers supplied to it by Mobile Star, the online retailer turned over its entire inventory purchased from the company. In a statement sent to MacRumors, Amazon said it has "zero tolerance for the sale of counterfeits," and that it works "closely with manufacturers and brands, and [pursues] wrongdoers aggressively." Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Armenian, Azerbaijani heads of parliament meet in Switzerland President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Border residents overnight on highway to protest Armenia’s Residents of Kirants continue to express outrage over the government’s decision to cede land to Azerbaijan. Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. |