I'm not sure where you're getting the Foxconn cords from, but for the most part this just isn't true anymore. I used to be a huge advocate in my family for buying the generic brand since my parents and relatives were wasting a lot of money on things like Monster cables. But I've personally been burned so many times I just tell them to buy Anker since you don't have to worry about it even though they are a little expensive. Its not worth the hassle
I've become genuinely disturbed at how substandard generic peripherals have become. What's especially disturbing to me is that the problem often seems to be drifting from spec standards, adhering to specs just enough to be functional for most products for just long enough.
I have a audio system that I went through like 4 generic cables on. I was just about to get a replacement system when I saw Anker enthusiastically recommended somewhere, and thought I'd give it a last-ditch chance. It's worked beautifully, no problems.
I've seen similar issues with other types of cables. The scope of the problem is astonishing to me--it's like the manufacturing standards at 85% of producers just suddenly went out the window over the last 5 years or so. I suspect there's a good newsstory somewhere there.
