I won't use terms like green washing but honestly i dont believe apple truly gives a **** about ecology .
And I am still shocked they dared say the charger removal was due to ecology concerns, with a straight face and a big smile
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I only have about half a million in Apple stock, but I was one of the investors that were demanding Apple stop shipping the warts. Does anyone not have an entire box filled with them someplace in their house? At a minimum, Apple should ask you if you need one. If you say yes, they just toss one in the bag. If not, less clutter winding up in the landfill.
Remove the charging cable from the iPhone box and tell us you’re saving the climate what does a charger have to do with Mother Nature
People complain about rare earth mining, yet when they find a way to use less of it, people cry.
you haven't seen the framework laptop yet. on an unrelated note, why is apple getting rid of the adapter but not the stickers?
Do you ever travel? Do you ever have the "Who's computer is this?" dance at the TSA? You put stickers on your laptop in strange places so they are easier to spot. It's not so much of a problem when you fly First Class or are Precheck.
Apple can brag all they want about this while keeping a straight face because they know the majority of their customer base doesn't have to experience looking at their windows seeing child labor haul out toxic metals and materials from mines. That "not in my back yard" strategy is working wonders for Apple's PR department.
Apple is the company that is paying their customers to return their old hardware so the metals can be recycled. (I don't sell my used computers and phones back. I gift them to people who would have a hard time affording them. Recycle is good. Reuse is better.)
What I would like to know is the cumulative energy consumption of the apple device installed base.
Is it going up or down. Is the transition to wireless charging going to spike the energy consumption?
Apple knows from each device how much and how it is being used. So it would be a piece of cake to chart the lifecycle energy footprint.
If you want to make revenue over the lifecycle of a device, so should you plot the lifecycle eco footprint. Right?
I prefer direct connect, but the amount of energy lost by induction charging is trivial.
If Tim Apple actually cared about Earth Day, he wouldn't have Apple products manufactured in China.
Apple is scaling back their manufacturing in China and, they are demanding that the manufacturers improve their energy usage. They even have Apple staff on site to make sure the manufacturers live up to their standards. Every year, those standards get harder. (While Apple is a very hard company to negotiate with, they actually give money to their vendors in developing countries earmarked to employee quality of life and health and also to making their operations more environmentally clean.) There are right wing investor groups that are trying to force them to stop doing this.
