- IT Office Moves
Moving to a Larger Office? How to Scale Your IT
26 Jul, 2025
£18.30 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
If you’re in the “I just need it to work” camp, this Apple 1m Lightning cable is usually a safe buy. The big win is reliability: it’s the kind of cable that won’t randomly feel flaky on day one, and it’s less likely to be the cause of weird charge/connection issues compared with no-name alternatives. For an office or shared IT desk, that matters—people will abuse cables, and a decent Apple-branded one tends to take it better.
That said, £15.25 ex-VAT for a basic cable is objectively not cheap, and it’s hard to justify unless you specifically need Apple-branded compatibility or you’ve been burned by cheaper leads failing early. If your environment already has lots of Lightning devices and you want consistent behaviour across staff, it’s a sensible stock item. But if you’re mostly charging occasionally or you’ve got a mix of devices that don’t demand Apple branding, I’d look at better-value third-party cables—just avoid super-cheap ones and make sure they’re certified.

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