you should have 100 of these blocks in your drawer, if not, ask your neighbor, he has 200 of them in his drawer. They are all over planet earth, the landfill is overflowing with them!!!
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Apple Could Be Forced to Include a Charger with Every iPhone Sold in Brazil
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Your imagination seems quite limited. In a world where a set of tires costs $5,000 and lasts for 500,000 miles, the car dealer would have a set of tires that gets mounted for a test drive and then removed. You would buy one car without tires, add the tires, and then save $5,000 on your next two cars.
So you are saying you have zero USB charging bricks in your house? I have like 20 of them.
Should you get the phone contract also free of charge then? It's also required to make good use of your phone.
Wait it took you 30 minutes to figure out what kind of charging brick to buy for an Apple Watch? You can’t be serious 🤦♂️
Nonsense. I have/had a bunch of iPhone/iPad chargers at home which I never used and eventually throw away and I'm surely not the only one. But Apple had to produce them anyway, even though most people didn't really need them.
The lidar sensor isn't included in the default iPhone 12 models. And even with the lidars, the pro models still have a huge profit margin nevertheless.
I don't get mad at companies for making money on products that people want. However, I don't fall for PR stunts like this, praising the environmental impacts. Ditching the charger and earbuds, without compensating the price, was clearly and mainly a financial choice by Apple, increasing it's margins even more.
Also, environmental impacts of this choice, including the smaller packaging, may not be what you think:
Apple ditching chargers saves costs but not the planet
The iPhone 12 doesn’t come with earbuds or a wall charger
www.theverge.com
Yes, I've got the small box, the unused USB-C cable is still in it... However, ditching the charger and earbuds, without compensating the price, was clearly and mainly a financial choice by Apple, increasing it's margins even more.
Also, environmental impacts of this choice, including the smaller packaging, may not be what you think:
Apple ditching chargers saves costs but not the planet
The iPhone 12 doesn’t come with earbuds or a wall charger
www.theverge.com
I have 2 iPad chargers and 4 regular iPhone chargers. Plus a slew of chargers from other devices as well as outlets with USB ports. Getting another charger is not a plus for me. It just means more crap in our junk drawer.
We don't have many USB-C charging bricks, so had to buy one for my wife's new iPhone 12. Not the greatest moment from Apple, in my opinion, given the switch to USB-C cables (well, on one end, at least... they seem to be determined to hold onto lightning as long as possible...)
Apple had an opportunity to offer these plugs for free as an option for people who purchased a new iPhone. The “doing it for the environment” pillar they were standing on as a reason for not including something that is required to charge your device was quite a stretch.
Did you also not have any USB-A charging cables that would work perfectly well with the iPhone 12?
Even in just these type of discussions (of which there have been quite a few) on just online forums quite a few people have said they have plenty and wouldn't want another one, so even just lookin at a small percentage of the user base that the online forum community represents it seems that it would be quite far from even close to most, let alone everyone, that would actually want to or ultimately bother with requesting one.
No worries, Apple will just add an extra $20 (equivalent) to the price in Brazil.
Life goes on. Nothing to get worked up about.
Life goes on. Nothing to get worked up about.