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iPhone 11, XR, and SE No Longer Come With EarPods and Power Adapter But USB-C to Lightning Cable Included
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Only 8 iPhone 12 articles? You said what you could have said in one article but you split it up into 8 articles.![]()
Why? You could have had 50 or 100 or even more articles. Of cause any more than 1 article about the same information is absurd but since you like taking things to absurd levels, you should see the sky as the limit.
8 is more than the sensible 1 and nowhere near the at least 20 you could have done with a little more effort.
man the iPhone 12 is looking worse & worse every time I hear something about it. Is this going to be the worst selling iPhone in history?
Which is why they should have kept the USB-C adapter for another year or two.
Unecessary. MagSafe charging is clearly being set up as the replacement. Qi charging is universal across Android and iOS devices, more and more widespread in hotels and coffee shops and iPhone 12‘s wireless charging has been bumped up to 15W, three times faster than the power cubes that iPhones have always shipped with.
And then you pay £20 for the new charger and you're back to £419...
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At least it's £19 for a 20W charger rather than £19 for a 5W charger
That's not weird, it's the whole point - forcing many of their customers to buy an additional USB C charger, while being able to claim sweet sweet green eco cred at the same time.
Honestly not fussed about this at all - be surprised if anyone who's been on this site a while doesn't have a ton of lightning cables. And do people really use them nowadays - in the office/home, I use only wireless chargers / wifi sync - I still use a cable in the car mainly due to not having wireless Carplay, but I don;t remember the last time I took an iPhone out of the box and didn't leave the charger in it. (Likewise with the earpods, I've never been impressed with them).
Good move IMO.
Good move IMO.
But people will probably be buying the chargers seperately so are they really improving the environment?
Plus, my USB C charging cube from my iPhone 11 broke. Just stopped working. So now i don't even have a charging cube.
USB-C cable doesn't go well in the USB-A charger...
I highly doubt that this is solely for environment. Lots of old USB A Adapters will go waste. And why the hell apple is still sticking to lightning on only iPhone? If they cared about the environment, they would have started usb C to usb C across all products.
Yes, because I imagine the number of people that actually need another charger would be miniscule. I'm surprised people even still use dedicated single-use chargers (I've always used Anker multi-USB chargers for all my USb devices - my bottom drawer is full of iPhone/iPad/Kindle etc chargers that have never been used).
Chargers do wear out and no longer work though. I've had to throw a few of the Chargers away over the years. Having a multiple Charger unit does seem enticing though, and it will take out a lot of these unnecessary cords.