iPhones get better every year with newer, improved, and additional technology in them, yet accessories didn't need to be removed before to somehow "make up" for it. Apple also decided to provide the reasoning for it all during their event, and according to them that wasn't what was behind it.
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You mean like an electric car??
A car that does not include, you guessed it, a charger. You have to pay extra to rent the charger from the manufacturer. Same with the battery itself in some cases.
If that was pretty much always the practice in general that would be one thing, but if for years that was what was just normally part of the purchase and then was just suddenly removed and the charging cable was changed as well, that would be something different.
I cut off the non lightening end and attach it to a bank of potato batteries I learned to make from Bill Nye the science guy. Go GREEN! 🤣
I don’t think I care. I have a stack of white stickers I’ll never use. My daughter did put one on her Chromebook. 5 or so earbuds. And we have a bin with about 10 adapters we give to guests to take when they ask to borrow a charger.
I don’t think I care. I have a stack of white stickers I’ll never use. My daughter did put one on her Chromebook. 5 or so earbuds. And we have a bin with about 10 adapters we give to guests to take when they ask to borrow a charger.
What is stopping me from using my lightning to USB A with 12W iPad adapter?
That’s brilliant for Apple One, where you have to subscribe to be able to charge your iPhone. Great idea, you should email Tim Cook about it.
Or if Apple actually is concerned for the environment and how they’ve been shipping so many chargers and EarPods, they should open up a program where customers can bring theirs for a store credit. That would generate a much better PR than this obvious greed attempt.
But guess what aside from all those unused adapters we also all have unused cables that work just fine with the iPhone 12.
5G is for Apple the most costly improved technology they've added in the last couple of years. Those 5G modems are even for Apple exorbitantly expensive plus needs a whole redesign of the antenna system. Don't underestimate just how expensive 5G is to implement at the moment for manufacturers. So Apple being the only manufacturer not raising their prices for 5G is a good thing.
And Apple not saying it's largely money doesn't mean that the reasoning isn't large money, though it ties in nicely with the environment especially the smaller packaging is a win/win situation for Apple and for the environment.
Is there some law which states that the next iphone cannot cost any more than the current one?
If it costs more to design and manufacture, it can and should cost more. Just take it that removing the accessories and the lower freight costs help offset the higher price tag. Not enough to keep it at the same price, but every bit helps.
Ok? Don’t get how that relates to what I just said but you’re not disagreeing or agreeing. I stated you already have a brick and cable if you had a previous iPhone to use to charge this phone be it your older phones cable and brick.
So 1) go buy one. 2) go buy one. 3) go buy one. 4) $20 isn’t going to break your wallet. 5) if it did you wouldn’t be buying an iPhone.
I have at least 4-7 cables. Two came from my beats products and another with my AirPods Pro. Plus the ones with my iPhone 11 Pro so that’s 4 alone right there. Bought a few longer ones so
I do but that is because the iPhone 11 Pro came with a USB type C charger. I actually took my same one from my iPad Pro and gave it to a friend.
What eternity? I used to charge my phone wireless and always charged fast enough to not argue even if I slept for 3 hours. Not scientific but my own experience when I usually only charge my phone overnight when I go to bed. Always 100%
1) because by now everybody has a brick and cable by now unless you’re a person who just got out of Cyro freeze and last time was 2007? The only people this really hurts are Android users who have never owned an iOS device and their previous devices have USB type A bricks.
2) you can’t argue against 1 because for most people nobody just owns one cable. Apple is notorious making shotty cables tho their USB type c cable has lasted me a year so far.
That logic works because everybody has a phone. With enough iOS penetration it works out. MacBooks not so much
By the same logic 4G/LTE was similarly a big thing for Apple in that respect, yet when iPhone models supporting that came out accessories weren't removed.
And sure, it's a win for Apple, and perhaps some sort of a positive for the environment, but basically at the cost of the consumer -- it's kind of easy to do something if the burden of doing it is shifted on someone else (and in the process you even end up profiteering from it on top of it all).
Apple will already accept and recycle stuff for you for free, at least in the UK.
By that logic it certainly doesn't break Apple's wallet to include what they always included with the purchase of the iPhone.
Even if the brick costs $0.50 cents to produce that’s $500,000 in cost if you made 1 million iPhone 12 variants. If you didn’t make 1 million bricks. Now add in labor surely it costs probably $1 to produce. ( if it’s automated then costs is electricity which is the same as labor in terms of cost). Sure won’t break their bank but apples core business is to make money for their shareholders.