I understand your concern, but charging cables in my experience are exactly the same as Apple cables and quite rightly are only 99p. Much like you can now buy them in Poundland too.
Firstly cables and chargers are available for 99p on eBay, secondly, you mentioned an iPhone 5s. That's a 4 year old phone still running perfectly. Maybe that's the difference, Apple products last that bit longer and are that bit more well made. My 6plus is nearly 3 and is a brilliant phone. How...
Sales tax is not applied by Apple and therefore they have nothing to do with it, but with calculations I am taxing tax into account. My iPhone 6 Plus that I bought in New York was £80 cheaper than the uk after all taxes. Now at that time the rate was around 1.55 to the dollar. The price in £ was...
Blimey, Apple don't take into account the exchange rate between £ & $ at all anymore. The rate is 1.33 at the moment, you'll save yourself over £200 on the iPhone x 256gb even with the us tax on top. If you want one and have a trip to the states coming up in the next 12 months, surely you should...