Where's the fat profit margins in that?
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Apple and Belkin Reducing Environmental Impact of Packaging With iPhone 13 Launch
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The only way to reduce waste is to have companies stop using plastic.
Recycling is failing in America. Read up. It turns out we can’t handle the amount of plastic we are using, so it’s ending up in landfills.
The pandemic has made plastic use and abuse worse
Recycling is failing in America. Read up. It turns out we can’t handle the amount of plastic we are using, so it’s ending up in landfills.
The pandemic has made plastic use and abuse worse
How about Apple ship these with those nice braided lightening to USB-C cables that are included with the M1 iMac.
The elephant in the room is all the pollution being caused due to deliveries and sending out a device that cannot be repaired in-store.
Apple one step forward and 3 steps back but hey as long as it looks good to the industry and shareholders (I am one) all is well. Why not use the same paper wrapper used on the power adapter that comes with iPad, Mac products. I don’t discard the plastic it’s stays on the box until it’s being sold.
The elephant in the room is all the pollution being caused due to deliveries and sending out a device that cannot be repaired in-store.
Apple one step forward and 3 steps back but hey as long as it looks good to the industry and shareholders (I am one) all is well. Why not use the same paper wrapper used on the power adapter that comes with iPad, Mac products. I don’t discard the plastic it’s stays on the box until it’s being sold.
Apple can make the iPhone packaging slimmer, I am not sure why their did not do so with iPhone 12. Maybe a bullet point in the future that we reduced iPhone packaging by XX% so yeah pat on our back.
So I bet you never have the need to transfer data directly from your iPhone to your Mac or even PC (not though cloud storage). Good for you.
Plastic is cheap because oil mining is still “cheap”. But oil is clearly a finite resource and can’t be replenished in a reasonable timeframe. It’s more about long term thing and benefit next generation rather than absolutely lowest cost possible.
There is a method to make the iPhone repairable and have healthy profits and it has nothing to do with the design of iPhone, actually with iPhone 12 and present the design makes it feasible.
Maybe the present reasoning is security related or maybe not, but it certainly not a hardware design limitation.
Healthy profits are not enough, they need to be obscene profits.
In other news, I'm avoiding creating 1000 metric tons of plastic waste, by not shrink wrapping my car each evening in the garage!
Hmmm, no mention of all the billions of metric tons of plastic waste from the outer casing of Cables?
Hmmm, no mention of all the billions of metric tons of plastic waste from the outer casing of Cables?
Way to pop the happy bubble. Let the eco-mentalists feel that "they did their part"
If they want to really save the environment then don't upgrade any of their devices. Just replace battery when needed.
Better yet buy pre-owned devices.
Looks like they've reduced their budget for Keynote designers as well.
Tell that to a person penning the 512gb and 1TB option. Syncing must be excruciatingly painful, making a backup or transfer of that new 4k proRes video…
the iPad have USB C to transfer files on this mini computer. And the iPhone pro is presented as a professional camera substitute. How will I move my 200GB file to the computer/ iPad with usb 2.0 speeds?
sure we might have MagSafe charging… but data transfer? Color me skeptical
More of 100 benefits. One is environmental, 30 are PR gold and the rest is profits. Their actions shows this is not made with the environment in mind. It just a happy accident to capitalize. still good tho, even when done for the wrong reason.
drinking up my full glass.
Doesn't seem to be a problem with all their accessories that use this same pull strip.
Does the question really matter if the end result is good? Seems like just an exercise in cynicism.
Well it’s a good metric of sincerity.
did you do this for the environment? If yes
Is it a symbolic meaning with just a cost benefit ? If yes,
then pleas stop trying to sell yourself as green when you are doing It as hard as possible in more environmentally damaging behavior but extremely lucrative as it’s way worse for the environment.
similar take would be an extremely pro Union company advocating for it, but doing their absolute best to union bust their own company with the worst possible worker treatment.
As someone else rightly pointed out, why can't it be both a cost-saving measure AND an environmentally-friendly measure? The point is they're doing something good. And even if they're not as "environmentally conscience" in other areas, every step in the right direction is good. No matter what they do or say, there will always be a peanut gallery of cynics.
Can’t tell if this is excessive marketing and just plain old tempered glass or actually something better than that.
Making it repairable would probably reduce how long it lasts, with battery replacement being the possible exception.
Lets not kid ourselves. It's done to save Apple money as well as "sustainability reasons".