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Samsung to Follow Apple and Stop Offering Power Adapters With Smartphones Next Year
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If Apple wrote "Samsung sucks"on their devices...think they would too?
Good. Less waste, no need to get another charger with every phone. I’m all for Samesung copying Apple this time. If you still don’t have a USB-C charger, they’re only $9.99, pick one up, totally worth it.
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I really do not understand the controversy. The earbuds, USB cable, and charger never left the boxes of my last three iPhones. This is e-waste in a time when there are so many better alternatives and so little use of these accessories by consumers. I’m sure both Apple and Samsung have done their homework. Good on them. Stop shipping things that never get used.
These are the same thing - they're going to reduce the cost to produce each unit by not having to make as many chargers while understanding that demand for high end smartphones is relatively price-inelastic so they can sell the same number of units for the same price even without including the charger.
You know, some of my friends joked around about making tires optional on new cars since they are junk that lasts under 30,000 miles. 😨
Smartphone sales are flat to declining. So companies decide to raise prices and remove accessories from the box to keep revenue and profits up. Consumers get screwed.
A better comparison would be when you buy a house, they don’t force you to buy the furniture that’s already there. You’ve probably got your own already.
you can certainly ask to buy the furniture because maybe you don’t have some thingS or wanna get rid of your old stuff. Whatever. But now it’s a choice.
it is extremely extremely wasteful to continue down the path of including this for everyone when many people are perfectly content using what they’ve already acquired several times over.
You could always sell those extra charging blocks on eBay....
I have no idea what distinction you are trying to make here. Are you suggesting the chargers are made out of porcelain?
chillout. most people only have 1 powerful usb-c charger and many 5W chargers.
Would your perspective change if iPhone prices were lower as a result? A 128gb iPhone 12 is rumored at $649. The equivalent iPhone 11 is $749. As long as this doesn’t turn into a money grab by Apple, I completely applaud them. I probably have 10 iPhone/iPad chargers lying around my house. E-waste is real.
At least we won't have to see the 500 "BUT WAS IT A THIRD PARTY CHARGER?" comments on the next smartphone catches fire article
They’re practically worthless. You couldn’t make a profit selling them on eBay with shipping and fees, not to mention your time spent making the posting, packaging them, driving to the post office and so on.
And I could cite numerous times Apple copied Samsung (e.g., large screen phones that Apple fans mocked) and Android (like iOS 14's on screen widgets). Its good they copy each other. Consumers win when you get the best features from both.
Hilarious the complaints about this. I don’t regularly buy phones but I have a dozen 5w chargers and maybe half a dozen chargers for iPads. I don’t know where they’ve all come from... I don’t even use an Apple charge block because of wireless charging anymore. This really is a non-issue. As much as some folks may complain or claim they won’t buy another phone as a result, it will have MINIMAL effect on sales. No one will really care in the end. But... it’s fun to cry about something.
A larger concern I think should be talked about are the fire/safety hazards of the general public buying $3 China chargers as a result of not having a readily available, quality brick from Apple 😒. That could be a problem... but still not necessarily Apple’s problem.
A larger concern I think should be talked about are the fire/safety hazards of the general public buying $3 China chargers as a result of not having a readily available, quality brick from Apple 😒. That could be a problem... but still not necessarily Apple’s problem.
I suppose it'd be good if the next Samsung phone doesn't come with a battery in order to improve safety.
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At least the Anti-Apple crowd won’t have much time to bash Apple for dropping chargers when their beloved Android makers do it too.