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I discovered this a couple years back, truly the worst. I don't know what kind of cynical cargo-culting fools are wasting resources, designing this junk and selling it to unsuspecting people who don't read the fine print.

I've been burned buying "name brand" stuff on Amazon too many times (counterfeit garbage drop shipped instead) so for anything Apple I go to an authorized Apple reseller, not ScAmazon.

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I don't know what kind of cynical, extortionary company produces phones with a proprietary adapter protocol implementing DRM to make it hard to produce third-party alternatives to their first-party USB-to-audio dongles.

If you take a look at the USB-C adapter ecosystem, you most likely won't find such shenanigans – because manufacturers can just do the right thing there and hook up a DAC to a small SoC that speaks the USB audio protocol directly.

If Amazon sends you counterfeit goods, do you at least report it with the police and demand your money back? That's the only way to stop them.

It's baffling that such a large, well established and legitimate company as Amazon can apparently get away with selling counterfeit goods.

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