It's a win-win only for Apple. They get to make the "sale" by including nothing while keeping their prices as before. Many consumers will add the essential Apple power adapter at checkout for convenience.
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iPad Why do some countries not receive a charging brick with the new iPad?
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It's a win-win only for Apple. They get to make the "sale" by including nothing while keeping their prices as before. Many consumers will add the essential Apple power adapter at checkout for convenience.
The EU should force Apple to allow other company’s stores in the Apple Store checkout 😂
We can’t have Apple gatekeeping what chargers people have access to after all.
I don’t know anybody personally who has done that, especially with the convenience of Amazon where most will buy their case from anyway. Some will buy the Apple one sure, I very much doubt most though. My daughter’s iPad 10 had no charger so I bought an Anker one off Amazon at the same time, both arrived the same day. A lot of consumers don’t even buy their iPads directly from Apple either, like all their products that are available through Argos, Currys, John Lewis, Amazon etc.
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Many but many also choose the other brands too. Anker sell several versions of the usb-c plugs and many of those have over 5k sold in the last month. Apple could easily add £10 to the retail price of the device and get every one of their users buying their chargers, but they are generously giving other companies sales too it seems.
It’s a competitive market for charging bricks and cables.Many but many also choose the other brands too. Anker sell several versions of the usb-c plugs and many of those have over 5k sold in the last month. Apple could easily add £10 to the retail price of the device and get every one of their users buying their chargers, but they are generously giving other companies sales too it seems.
Yep and even more so now Apple and other OEM manufacturers do not supply its own chargers on purchase due to environmental pressure. Its definitely worked for iPhone up until usb-c due to older chargers being used.
And even with a USBC iPhone all you potentially need to do is buy a new cable rather than a new charging brick.
?Apple chargers are very reliable and safe? Their cables can be a bit feeble, though.
Op-Ed: Were the raw materials in your iPhone mined by children in inhumane conditions?
Last year, I visited the sprawling mines of Cerro Rico, the “rich hill” that looms over Potosi, Bolivia.
literally a 5 second google search.
If seems to me that Apple wasn't directly employing children or intending to for this purpose. Rather the mining source, an unfortunate choice for Apple.Op-Ed: Were the raw materials in your iPhone mined by children in inhumane conditions?
Last year, I visited the sprawling mines of Cerro Rico, the “rich hill” that looms over Potosi, Bolivia.www.latimes.com
literally a 5 second google search.
Ridiculous. Like others have said, people haven’t accumulated enough of these chargers yet. I have one. The one that came with my Air 5. Everything else is USB-A. What about people who don’t upgrade too often? My family has about 4 of the USB-A iPad chargers (which is enough), and about 10 5w USB-A chargers (more than enough). But not USB-C.
I think this is too soon. Perhaps they could’ve waited a few years until people accumulated enough. As it stands, if I were to buy a USB-C device, I’d have to buy a charger. Not the case with USB-A by now.
I think this is too soon. Perhaps they could’ve waited a few years until people accumulated enough. As it stands, if I were to buy a USB-C device, I’d have to buy a charger. Not the case with USB-A by now.
You can buy USB-A to USB-C cables and use all your USB-A chargers. You don’t need a charging brick with a USB-C connection just because the device has a USB-C port.
Did you know that your USB-C devices will be looking for a USB-C PD handshake for anything above 5V/1A? Good luck keeping even a MacBook Air operating on that. (I did try this myself out of curiosity)
Anyone know why the M1 Air only pulls 5W from a 5V/2.4A charger?
I have an Anker USB 3.0 (USB Type A) charger that can output 5V/2.4A for a maximum of 12W per port. When I charge my iPhone with a USB-A to Lightning cable, it pulls the full 12W. But when I use a USB 3.0 Type A to USB-C cable to charge my M1 MacBook Air, it only pulls 5W from the charger...
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Yes of course but a MacBook charger has never had a USB-A connector on it as far as I can remember. So you’ll either have one with a USB-C port already, or it’ll be hardwired, in which case you’d need a new one regardless.Did you know that your USB-C devices will be looking for a USB-C PD handshake for anything above 5V/1A? Good luck keeping even a MacBook Air operating on that. (I did try this myself out of curiosity)
Anyone know why the M1 Air only pulls 5W from a 5V/2.4A charger?
I have an Anker USB 3.0 (USB Type A) charger that can output 5V/2.4A for a maximum of 12W per port. When I charge my iPhone with a USB-A to Lightning cable, it pulls the full 12W. But when I use a USB 3.0 Type A to USB-C cable to charge my M1 MacBook Air, it only pulls 5W from the charger...
Does that bit of info assist the iPad Pro folks who will find their devices charging very very slowly, or the laptop people in two years time who will find those USB-A chargers useless?
I was responding to the information you gave someone else, making out like the USB-A ports they had were the solution to this problem.
My point was that a USB-C charger is not required to recharge a USB-C device; older USB-A chargers will charge fine with the appropriate cable.
If you want faster charging or USB-C charging, at that point you can buy yourself an appropriate charger and keep using it for many years/decades to come.
Go on then, explain how a MacBook Pro will "charge fine" with a USB-A charger??? 👀
It is not a recommended practice to charge a device with a charger that is waaaaay underpowered and cannot support the necessary wattage to power a device in use. Feel free to research this and let us know your findings, but please avoiding posting fallacies online that are bad practice.
I wouldn’t charge a MacBook Pro with a usb-a charger. I’d either use my existing usb-c laptop charger, or I’d buy one.
I would charge an iPhone or iPad with a usb-a charger though.
If it wasn’t truly about the money, Apple could have offered a trade in scheme where their customers hand in old lightning cables and get a free USB-C cable. We’ve already paid for it and Apple get to control where the old cables go for a true environmentally friendly response to their marketing feel good message.
Totally absurd I know.
Totally absurd I know.
Yeah companies like Anker must be rubbing their hands with glee due to EU regulation as their sales must be skyrocketting.
There are all kinds of chargers at home (most probably everyone has a few), and with USB-C charging is the norm, a charger is not needed to be sold with the new device. There are devices that can be charged wirelessly too. Anyway, we are supposed to leave this world safer for our children and grandchildren and their children, not dump yards full of dangerous stuff. Governments should, that is if they have the guts to, tell the companies to stop releasing a newer product every year, making the last year's product garbage. People's psyche says buy the new product, when the older one can last few more years, or people are pushed to think that way, against their own reasoning.
So, it is a good law telling the companies not to pack the chargers with a new electronic device. They could even force the companies not to pack the power cables too.
So, it is a good law telling the companies not to pack the chargers with a new electronic device. They could even force the companies not to pack the power cables too.