Was at my local apple store today and was surprised that they had 9 lightning cables that I saw...I didn’t even check all... that had exposed wires at the part where the lighting adapter starts on the phone end. My kid was afraid to plug his phone in since at our house he knows I trash the cords once they are that worn. They had bad cables on the iPads, some phones, the area where you can plug your own stuff, and where the iPads are available for the kids to play with. Seems odd!?