Most people skip a few iPhone generations. Such a dongle only costs a few cents to manufacture and easily fits in the box. It would be a better measure against e-waste than having to throw away USB-A chargers. It would have made sense to do this from the first generation that included a charging cable with USB-C connector.
Sorry, but much as you might want that statement to be true, it simply isn't. The unbundling of chargers is, like the standardised adoption of USB-C, something that's being mandated by the EU. Whilst this may or may not benefit Apple financially (bare in mind Apple also fought against this), your bold statement that it's purely profit motivated is just confirmation bias.
Nowhere in the link is any sort of "drilling" or any overt demands on the staff mentioned.
With Apple's iPhone 15 series launch potentially now just two weeks away, Apple retail employees are reportedly being drilled to emphasize to customers at the point of sale that the switch to USB-C means the new devices cannot be charged with existing Lightning chargers that they may already own.
Not really... Apple will tout things like "sustainability", "privacy", and "eco-friendly" so long as it helps them sell phones. They don't really believe in any of that.
True. I’m thinking of my mom, for example. She’d have no clue about this and therefor would end up buying a phone she doesn’t have a charger for AND that doesn’t come with a charger.
The EU made them do it...same thing incoming for "replaceable" batteries in phones.
Hopefully they're not taking it overboard. About a decade back, Best Buy caught flak because their store employees working as cashiers needed to push them Monster cables on customers. They were VERY aggressive about it (as if their jobs depended on it) to the point where customers were irate, and arguing with them. Managers got bonuses and vacations if their store met quota.
Especially since the there have been USB-C to Lightning cables. The only positive to this is many customers will already have a USB-C block. I won't let my mom get her phone, because she would be the one to buy the block again. lol.
Yep. Went through this last year when I got my 14 Pro. Picked it up in a store and the Apple employee came back with a charging brick when he got my phone from the back. I had to decline to buy it three times before he finally gave up. It was honestly the most off putting experience I have ever had in an Apple Store. I had never had an Apple employee so clearly try to push a product on me and be so unwilling to listen when I said I didn’t need it. Really highlighted that the removal of the charging brick was about padding profit margins rather than environmentalism (which we all knew, but still…).
Even people who know about USB-C may not be aware of the change to the iPhone.
Apple never really cared about environment and added waste. All their care about is making bucks.
But that cost money.
