It’s not stupid, it’s technical.
If you use a charger that’s not Apple and it kills your iPhone they can deny service under warranty.
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Apple Could Be Forced to Include a Charger with Every iPhone Sold in Brazil
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If you use a charger that’s not Apple and it kills your iPhone they can deny service under warranty.
Of course the government can require them to give customers chargers. Apple will just calculate how many phones they expect to sell and divide the cost among them. Someone has to pay for it so it's the consumer.
The original argument was “third party chargers” but you get that. There’s a lot of Chinese counterfeit Apple accessories out there.
Apple's decision to remove the charger was reasonable.
Their attempt to market this as saving the environment, rather than the clear cost-cutting measure that it actually is, was stupid beyond belief. Note to Tim Cook: Apple's Reality Distortion Field died with Steve Jobs. Sorry, you can't try to pull that trick, people will see right through it.
But as always, things can get worse. Now you have the semi-communist government of a country (note: I live in Brazil, I know exactly what I'm talking about) intruding themselves into a voluntary commercial transaction between two parties, having the gall to claim they know better than the customer (who, again, voluntarily entered into a commercial transaction well aware of its conditions) whether they need to pay for a charger or not. Note: yes, Brazilians will pay for this charger. That's the problem with communist-leaning countries: they think they can make expensive stuff free by government decree. It's no different than legislating away gravity or whatever, it's never going to work.
Their attempt to market this as saving the environment, rather than the clear cost-cutting measure that it actually is, was stupid beyond belief. Note to Tim Cook: Apple's Reality Distortion Field died with Steve Jobs. Sorry, you can't try to pull that trick, people will see right through it.
But as always, things can get worse. Now you have the semi-communist government of a country (note: I live in Brazil, I know exactly what I'm talking about) intruding themselves into a voluntary commercial transaction between two parties, having the gall to claim they know better than the customer (who, again, voluntarily entered into a commercial transaction well aware of its conditions) whether they need to pay for a charger or not. Note: yes, Brazilians will pay for this charger. That's the problem with communist-leaning countries: they think they can make expensive stuff free by government decree. It's no different than legislating away gravity or whatever, it's never going to work.
The article says Apple failed to demonstrate the environmental benefits of not including a charger and did not make it sufficiently clear to the consumer that a charger was not included (considering they always had chargers with prior iPhone versions). So I’m guessing that it would be OK to sell the iPhone with no charger if Apple had met these requirements.
Apple's argument that "everyone already has a charger" seems weaker when you consider that the chargers most people already have don't work with the new cable Apple is providing.
The issue might be it's a third world country so they don't have a reliable source of quality chargers other than Apple so it's like people have to buy them from Apple.
The argument is stronger when you consider that the chargers people already have also have a cable attached LOL
Correct me if I’m wrong but Apple jacked up the prices for older iPhone models in Brazil despite the fact of getting a price cut in the US.
There is only one solution. If you buy an iPhone <ou're qualified for a free charger - f you want to.
I am pretty sure I saw the price there and it’s like over $2k for a phone. One of the most expensive places to buy one in the world. I bet they don’t add to the price and eat it, god knows they can afford it.
And where's your evidence that the 12 costs the same to build as the 11 last year?
It's possible. Companies often set local prices based on the cost of doing business and other factors. Also marketing is different for different consumers. You have to consider the SE will have less demand in the USA so that causes the price to drop.
No because if they did this worldwide everyone would request a charger regardless if they needed it or not. There is no system that works on trusting people to be honest.
That’s how they got everyone. “Oh ya by the way only people who got iPhone 11’s have the charger needed for the cable we provide. And most of the people don’t upgrade every year. So we just triple screwed people”
Good. Let's not pretend it had anything to do with the environment.
Why didn’t they just raise the price of the iPhone like they have in the past then?
The government should be fighting for these people. Imagine paying the most for the phone in the world!! Then they say oh ya btw, buy a charger also..which is also over priced
They’ll pass the cost of the $19 charger right along to the Brazilian customers, who if they’re buying in Brazil are already paying 2-3x what the same phone costs here in the United States.
From 2007-2014, I worked at a very large Apple Store in South Florida. At least half our clientele was from South America, a majority of them from Brazil... because the phones are 1/3rd or 1/2 the cost to them here.
From 2007-2014, I worked at a very large Apple Store in South Florida. At least half our clientele was from South America, a majority of them from Brazil... because the phones are 1/3rd or 1/2 the cost to them here.
...well, apart from having deep pockets, I don't see why Apple (or the Apple customers who pay for warranty support via the price of their kit) should foot the bill for damage that was demonstrably caused by dangerous fake chargers. That's the fraudster's fault, the authorities' failure for failing to police outright fraud - and in those cases where the customer has bought a suspiciously cheap product from a dodgy source, negligence by the customer.
Meanwhile, there's a big difference between a warranty not covering "damage caused by third-party accessories" (reasonable) and a warranty that is void if third-party accessories are used (what some manufacturers will try and pull).