People are making it sound like 99% of iPhone owners will need to get adapters. The percentage is VERY VERY low where they don't have a USB-C power brick OR a USB-A power brick. If they never owned any smartphone, obviously they will need additional accessories!
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Samsung Mocks Apple for Ditching Power Adapters With iPhone 12 Lineup
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People are making it sound like 99% of iPhone owners will need to get adapters. The percentage is VERY VERY low where they don't have a USB-C power brick OR a USB-A power brick. If they never owned any smartphone, obviously they will need additional accessories!
What does this even mean? This is like saying a 10-core CPU should cost the same as a dual core CPU? More and better tech increases price.
And this makes all USB-A power bricks and USB-A to Lightning cables useless? No. There is an extra USB-C to Lightning if you want to get a USB brick for the fast charging feature. I have dozens of USB-A bricks and cables around the house I can use instead.
Samsung’s utter lack of self-awareness and their marketing cowardice are legion. How they can look themselves in the mirror with their boneheaded levels of hypocrisy is astounding.
Do you have that many usb-c adapters? I don’t believe it. I have 11 pro so I have a cable. This year I will upgrade everyone else in my family and then what? One usb-c for the whole family or 100$ additional for Apple. So much foe saving Mother Earth.
"In the name of saving dear earth"; thought Samsung will support environment by following Apple's lead not shipping power adapter with phone but instead pathetically mocks Apple. You are anti environment. How low can you go Samsung ? Shame on you!!
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It’s not b.s. That’s the lazy, cynical, guy-living-on-his-mom’s-couch point of view, but it’s not reality. The European Union has actally been investigating e-waste and criticizing electronics makers like Apple for years for the acres of landfills replete with chargers, cords, and adapters. The problem is very real, and if you’re not aware of it then it’s time to get wise. Apple, as they often do, are leading the charge from the front, and taking much of the fire that the cowards hiding behind them (cough, cough, Samsung) will miss.
Also, why would anyone need a USB A cable? Every one alive has half a dozen of them from all the phones they’ve bought. The USB C cable is provided for those with modern computers that have USB C but not cables.
You see, it‘s all logical and makes sense. Just kinda hard to see all that from the cheap seats in your parents’ basement.
Because it went so well for them when they mocked Apple for ditching the headphone jack. I mean, Samsung didn't have to go scorched earth remove all their prior ads, marketing, and hide the fact they were removing the headphone jack themselves in the new Note phone....
I'd like Samsung to show true courage and commit to never excluding a power adapter, ever.
Dual Core and 10 Core are different models. Different products altogether, in fact. YoY iPhone iteration is not.
At least Samsung usually takes longer than a year. Google is the ultimate copycat, making fun of Apple ditching the headphone jack while immediately did it as well the following year.
There’s no insult. It’s all an imagined slight by those who are too cynical in their own lives to imagine that anyone, let along a large corporation, might do things for reasons less selfish than their own in order to help the only planet we have.
Yup. Samsung already dropped headsets on their flagship, although sometimes Samsung ran promos of getting their TWS for free or at a discount.
Here's the thing -- if you have owned ANY smart phone over the last several years, you have at least one USB-A charging block. If you have owned any tablet over the last several years, you have at least one USB-A charging block. Hell, even the basic phones I sell at work come with a USB-A charging block and a micro USB cable. Nobody needs an additional charging block just because they are buying a new phone.
Sure, it sucks that Apple decided to include a USB-C to Lightning cable with the iPhones this year instead of a USB-A to Lightning cable. But this truly only impacts those people who are new to Apple. If they need a USB-A to lightning cable to work with their existing charging blocks, those are cheap and easy to come by (I buy 10' Amazon Basics ones for $12.99 or so). If you already have an iPhone, I'm sure you have plenty of cables lying around.
Sure, I don't fully buy the "environmentally friendly" thing. But, let's be real, there is absolutely no reason to be stressing about not getting the charging block that you probably already have.
Sure, it sucks that Apple decided to include a USB-C to Lightning cable with the iPhones this year instead of a USB-A to Lightning cable. But this truly only impacts those people who are new to Apple. If they need a USB-A to lightning cable to work with their existing charging blocks, those are cheap and easy to come by (I buy 10' Amazon Basics ones for $12.99 or so). If you already have an iPhone, I'm sure you have plenty of cables lying around.
Sure, I don't fully buy the "environmentally friendly" thing. But, let's be real, there is absolutely no reason to be stressing about not getting the charging block that you probably already have.
I would ask the question a different way about what produces a bigger carbon footprint. Of course if the environment is a concern.
1) phone
2) charger
3) phone + charger + headset
In my house I just did an inventory. 1 charger in the living room, 1 in the kitchen, 3 in my office, 2 in my bedroom and two more in other rooms. Headsets, 3 extra sets of earpods and 3 sets of airpods. I don't know if this is typical or not, but I don't need either and I suspect there are many other households that are similar.
So it makes sense to me that a positive impact on the environment, will happen with the removal of earpods and charger. And additionally, less packaging, less carbon dioxide/monoxide due to reduced use of fossil fuels in transportation.
I agree those who use private sales and include the charger and earpods are disenfranchised, but that is the trade-off for imo, the few to the many.
Well at least they give you a usb-c charging brick years before....
meanwhile Apple removes it and gives people a usb-c to lightning cable WITHOUT previously giving people a usb-c charging brick.
seems like Apple isnt too smart is covering their “earth benefits” and is getting 20$ more for everyone that needs that charging brick which they don’t have. Pretty crap if you ask me.
it would be ok if Apple gave us a usb-c charging brick at least 1 year prior but it’s bad how they went about this.
That lasted a year. Apples notch has lasted 4 years now including this years and it’s the same damn size.
Usually tech stays the same price or even becomes cheaper over time, regardless of advances.