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Barclays on iPhone 12 Lineup: No EarPods in Box and Possibly Not Even a Charger

tranceking26 said:
But how would we witness people losing their minds over something that will never happen!
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Haha. Next piece of news:

“It’s rumored the next iPhone may Not include a battery in the phone.”

Macrumors critical rhetoric that believes everything they read:

“tIM cRooK is behind this!“

😁
 
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ksec said:
One of the problem would be the included Cable is *USB-C* to Lightning. Not that many people have a USB-C charger, while USB-A is everywhere.
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I agree - most people do not have USB-C chargers, and certainly not in the quantities of USB-A. This is why I am confident one will be included.
 
Not including headphones or a charger totally makes sense. Most people have both already. I would say multiple copies actually. They just take up space and pollute the environment. If people need them, they can buy them separately. Would be nice if Apple lowers the price of the iPhone to reflect not including them tho. We shall see.
 
russell_314 said:
Why does everyone say "If Steve Jobs was around he would have done ____". Steve Jobs might have done it or might not. Unless you guys have an Ouija board and are somehow asking him from the grave how would you know?
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Just stupid really when people say it. Tech is in a far better place than when Steve Jobs was in charge.
 
SnackTime said:
The cost of including a charger is probably less than the cost of the public reaction of not including a charger.
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Lol...what public reaction? People will whine a bit and fork over extra money for a basic component. And Apple will do it again and again as long as they are allowed to get away with it.
 
Honestly, I have too many of those 5W chargers lying around, even the heftier iPad chargers. It would be nice for them to reduce the price of the phone without the charger and have the charger sold separately at the price difference.
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cmaier said:
Just donate them.
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That's a good call out. I have a bunch too. I always donate clothes or furniture to the Salvation Army/goodwill. I'll include these chargers too.
 
This makes a lot of sense as long as the exclusion is made clear to those that need to purchase those items and the cost of the iPhone reflects the exclusion. I don't need any more chargers nor EarPods.
 
I hope all of the new iPhones ship without a 5w charger for once. That would be good because a lot of households have too much 5w adapters not in use

but the so called “analyst” is so dumb in saying only USB C to Lightning. A lot of households would have the type A chargers scattered around and you stupid say type C without a USB C wall adapter

GTFO
 
LizKat said:
I'll take the non-empty box, don't care about notch/no-notch, let the orders be choiceful: either you get a charger or earpods and they come packaged separately.
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T-hat i-s a 2020 theme... However... M-a-ybe Apple should try the more extreme 2020 theme and go random. Some receive a charger with their iPhone, some receive AirPods, some receive neither, and so on. It would spike the box opening excitement. Huh?!Huh?!
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JGIGS said:
When buying the phone they should give you the option to buy a set of apple ear/air/pro or air pods studios if they are out by the release date at a bit of a discount. Both drives iPhone and headphone sales, and customers feel less concerned about not getting headphones with the phone. Win Win.
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I'd be okay with that, including the option of "None." They have AppleCare and their software as part of the build-to-order process.
calb said:
I agree - most people do not have USB-C chargers, and certainly not in the quantities of USB-A. This is why I am confident one will be included.
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I don't have a USB-C charger -- see my signature as to why -- but I'm still okay with Apple not including one. Granted, that's a little because I'm (perhaps naively) optimistic the savings will eventually, somehow come back around.
 
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I would never have thought a company would not include a power adapter with a device making it useless without another purchase. Except that's exactly what Nintendo did when they released the New 3DS. Should we expect anything different from a company that already doesn't even include a fast charger??
 
Music Head said:
I would never have thought a company would not include a power adapter with a device making it useless without another purchase. Except that's exactly what Nintendo did when they released the New 3DS. Should we expect anything different from a company that already doesn't even include a fast charger??
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Do you really not own any other charging bricks?
 
dhoughal said:
From an ecological viewpoint that sounds like a really good idea. Let people buy chargers as accessories if they really need one. Sooner or later, Apple will kill the physical charging port anyway.
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Let people buy chargers if they really want one???? You do realise that virtually all phones these days need charged on a daily basis? Unfortunately, powered by fairy dust is just for cars at the moment
 
MacknTosh said:
Let people buy chargers if they really want one???? You do realise that virtually all phones these days need charged on a daily basis? Unfortunately, powered by fairy dust is just for cars at the moment
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So what's the issue with the one you already have? Does your current charger explode the second you buy a new phone?

Also, you do realise that even when the charger is included in the box you're still paying for it, right? They don't include it for free from the goodness of their hearts, it's built into the price of the phone.
 
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MacCheetah3 said:
You're not the only ones with BT (audio device) problems, nor is it just AirPods. I've had connection glitches as well as a VERY annoying bug, especially if my BT speaker disconnects due to power save, during the next use, the volume control is non-effective. Typically, if I go through the process of re-pairing the device, volume adjustment will work again but not always.

Basically, I think, Apple has somewhat broken their BT drivers -- not exactly the first quality control issue in recent times though.
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Right. Except I thought that the AirPods and the iPhone were supposed to communicate somewhat differently because of the W-1 chip and that the handshaking that was going on was more stable. In fact the upcoming AirPods firmware or software release (possibly along with iOS and Mac OS releases) are supposed to make the switching of devices seamless and automatic. Currently if I want to listen with my AirPods on my MacBook Pro and I put the buds in, they pair to my phone, and I must go into my Mac menus and select and connect to transition the AirPods over to the Mac. Soon, apparently just playing audio with the AirPods in on a different device will change the connection.

I believe what I am suffering from, while it could be a software bug, is that at 2 years old, my AirPods are unfortunately toast. That's kind of disappointing.
 
SnackTime said:
The cost of including a charger is probably less than the cost of the public reaction of not including a charger.
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How about the cost of 100s of millions of chargers going to the landfill? Most folks have more chargers than devices already, and they all pretty much opt for faster chargers than the default in the box. Just sayin'. There are all sorts of "costs".
 
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