I've been a little less than thrilled with the latest round of AmazonBasics cables. The first batch I ordered a year or so ago lasted a good, long while before finally failing at the connection point (rubber at the joint cracking and exposing the metal wire underneath, eventually leading to failure).

But on the current batch I ordered in August, I have occasional issues with all three of them asking if I want to "trust this computer" when plugging my phone into my laptop, even when I've tapped it dozens of times before (never happens with the OEM ones), and one has already cracked the cable's rubber sheath near the base of the lightning connector after barely a month's use.

That said, the Apple OEM ones aren't particularly amazingly well-built or heavy-duty, either. I don't have as much experience with them as I have only bought two extras from Apple beyond the ones that have come with my phones, so my sample size is smaller. But my go-to cable right now for syncing is an OEM one; I keep the Amazon ones in my car and next to my bed for charging only.

I wouldn't be as bothered with the build quality and potential for failure if they weren't so expensive--I'd just buy a couple dozen and be done with it. But even at AmazonBasics prices, they're just overpriced for what a cable should be, given the wear and tear a typical cable is exposed to.