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“We stopped including a charger in the box to help the environment”

Actually this means more boxes are being created in total and this is worse for the environment.

How so? That thought only works if you think they still manufacture the same amount of chargers and package them. Which would be pretty dumb given that they aren’t guaranteed a sell. Also, who doesn’t have a bunch of different chargers already?

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foggy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You can Google for the myriad of reports on this very topic.

Here’s the top result.

theverge.com/…/apple-iphone-12-chargers-airpods-g…

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- akafester@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Lots of ‘mights’ and ‘ifs’. No concrete evidence. Also they write that it might spread out across lots of manufacturers. And not only that, this is an article from when the iPhone 12 got released, which was the first to include a USB-C to lightning adding to the worry.
  
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  - foggy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Again, you’re free to use Google and continue your research yourself. There are lots of them.
    
    Cheers.
    
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vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lmao, are you forgetting they also changed the cable from standard usb to lightning to USB c to lightning after they stopped including the brick?

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- NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, because everything is transitioning to USB-C and that’s a good thing. They made that switch when they removed USB A ports from their Macs.
  
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  - TheCannonball@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They only made the jump to USB-C because they were forced to. They would have loved to stay on their proprietary hardware for as long as possible.
    
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    NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Rumor is they wanted to wait to go portless. In current state Qi chargers work on iPhones but they don’t charge as quickly as their proprietary MagSafe connector which I find ridiculous so I’m glad they had to add a standard port
    
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  - vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That doesn’t invalidate my point at all.
    
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    foggy@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Apple stans gonna stan.
    
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    NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It does create less waste. If someone buys an iPad, Apple Watch, and iPhone they can charge them all off one usbc brick. Doesn’t need to be Apple brand. I use an Anker one myself. Same thing with their cheap headphones that used to come with the phone. I had accumulated a bunch of crappy headphones I never used over the course of a decade.
    
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