"Across the iPhone family, we’re removing the power adapter and EarPods that often go unused, but including the fast-charging USB‑C to Lightning cable that most people need."
Ouch. Do most people really not use the power adapter?
Ouch. Do most people really not use the power adapter?
Of course, the right thing to do here would be to drop the price of the phone by some token amount, like £10. Sure the environment benefit is real, but the real driving force is that Apple makes an extra 1% margin on every phone.
The unbundling is obviously just Apple pushing people toward their new magsafe charger tech though, (spinning it as an environmentally friendly thing) so they can finally make the jump to completely portless phones.
Now if you need to charge both, and you have the one-port Macbook, you're SOL. If not, you can plug the phone into the laptop...
I've just stopped listening to music on my phone.
I think a minuscule number of people won’t mind this. For the rest, these phones are going to cost more than before with the additional purchase of adapters.