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After charger, Apple removes USB-C cable from the box (www.gizmochina.com)

submitted 2 months ago by griffinger@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 111 points 2 months ago (13 children)

It's fine if they reduce the price accordingly.

If it's still the same price after they take the cable out, it was never about reducing waste to begin with.

Knowing Apple, that wouldn't surprise me in the slightest, which is why I never have and never will own any of their products.

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

well..by selling both the cable and wall adapter as separate items it doubles the packaging by necessity so it was still never about reducing waste

which is why I never have and never will own any of their products.

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[–] oktoberpaard@feddit.nl 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m not going to defend Apple’s profit maximization strategy here, but I disagree. Most people won’t end up buying a cable and adaptare because they already have one, and in contrast to those pieces made of plastic and metal, the packaging is mostly made of paper. I’m pretty confident that the reduction in plastic and metal makes up for the extra packaging that’s produced for the minority that does buy a cable and/or adapter.

[–] PapaIsolation@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

I agreed when they removed the brick. Everyone was saying it was horrible and it wasn’t actually about reducing waste but, nobody needs a new brick. If you reeeaaally need one, it’s really not going to break the bank to buy one, and it does massively reduce waste to not include one with every single new phone. I don’t see why people support wasting all these resources that 95% of the time is just going to be e-waste.

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