You can add a charger to your online order now. The entire order is $19 cheaper if you don't buy it. The charger is one of the accessory items recommended right before you checkout. Not having a charger added to your order is the default. If you need it, buy it. if not, save $19 + Tax
Nope, because it should not be an additional cost on top of iPhone. This little maneuver has made Apple more money than most businesses make in their entire existence.
Apple raised prices of iPhone at the same that they removed charger and earpods from the box. They also saved over $6 billion in the first year after doing.
How is making the phone $20 cheaper without the charger not adding an additional cost to the phone if you choose to add it? You are arguing against your original argument. If the price increases because you add a charger then the charger is not included in the price of the phone. Checking a box or adding it to the cart before you checkout is materially the same thing. The price of the phone is the price of the phone. If you want to pay the same price for an iPhone with a charger, you will need a time machine. Time, inflation, and increased component cost render the "Greedy Apple is making more money selling us less" arguments moot. Their financial statement show they are making less profit margins on hardware than previous years.
I don't want to hear about inflation. Apple makes obscene profits from its products, and when they make anti-customer moves like removing value from a purchase without adjusting the price, they deserve the flak they get for it. Your position is indefensible.
They didn’t make the phone $20 cheaper without the charger, that’s what you and many others don’t get. After removing the charger from the box, Apple continued to sell the iphones at the same price as before, when the charger was included in the box. Therefore, they are still including the $20 price of the charger as part of the iphone price, but by not including the charger anymore those $20 per iphone go straight to their profits.
No one is going to stop buying iPhones over the charger, that's the problem. Apple continuously gets away with anti-customer behavior with no repercussions. Apple could do a lot worse and still keep all of their customers.
Save the environment by reducing unnecessary product and save money at the same time. Interesting concept.
Given the above, one can always be rational and vote with their $$$. (There is no reality distortion field)
Whoever the "they" are, Apple consumers buy Apple, not because it's Apple, but because of what Apple signifies. Quality production, quality service, quality support.
And this bothers you why? Just don't buy Apple if the product doesn't fit you.
Yes, there is clearly some positive impact to the environment.
Pretend to save the environment by saying that you are, and having gullible people believe it, you mean.
In your opinion it's "pretend", imo it's "real". Different strokes for different folks.
It was wrong for Apple to remove $40 retail worth of accessories from the box and not adjust the price accordingly. Actually they raised prices at the same time, just to prove what insatiable greed they have. I don't care what comparisons can be made. I don't care how many people need a charger. I don't care. It was wrong for them to do it, and they did it anyway, because the hell with the customer, let's save $6 billion this year. End of story mate.
Common sense doesn't apply? But beyond that, you can't prove there is not a positive impact to the environment.
The flip side is there are plenty of other manufacturers out there if one so vehemently disagrees with the business practices of a company.
Apple also switched to more expensive displays, and 5G, which is more expensive to implement. Google also hiked up the price of the 5G Pixel phones. Oh, and the new Pixel doesn't ship with a charger in the box either.
The first 5 iterations of iPhone saw no problem adding high levels of value year over year without adding price. It's greed, pure and simple.
