Apple Charging

Why are Apple products so hard to charge? I’ve had a variety of Android phones and tablets. I’ve used any number of charging cords and bricks. They always work. Why wouldn’t they, it’s not that complicated.

Everyone else in the family has iPhones. We have two iPads. My daughters have the charging quirks down. “Don’t use that cable for the iPad, it only works for my iTouch”. “No, not that one either, that only works for Danny’s phone”. And the devices all recognize that a charger has been plugged in, because you get the ever so helpful “Not Charging” status. We’ve returned multiple iPhones because they wouldn’t charge. Googling “iPhone won’t charge” returns over 13 million hits.

Serious question, can anyone explain this? Charging isn’t hard…