I pay more for Apple products because I believe they are designed and produced to a higher quality level than most other products.  My experience using them seems to support this.

Ken Shirriff has done a nice investigation into the iPhone charger, and found that it is, indeed a high quality piece of kit.  Check it out….

http://www.arcfn.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-quality.html