> Apple also removed a $20-30 accessory from the box under the guise of saving the planet
Come on....
Everyone (to some approximation) has a charger already!
Why knock the people trying to reduce waste?
Come on....
Everyone (to some approximation) has a charger already!
Why knock the people trying to reduce waste?
So... you've already got compatible earpods? What's the problem?
The old SE had a headphone jack, so no.
Yeah, but I could always use more for various places around the house, travel, one or more inevitably getting lost, etc. And haven’t they in the past few years started bundling better chargers than those lame 5W ones they used to bundle for the longest time? Wouldn’t mind getting one of those and ditching and old 5W one.
But it's a different phone with different components? Are you expecting that the price should otherwise be exactly the same? That's never what happens that's not a reasonable assumption.
> considering that very few people probably have a USB-C brick designed for charging iPhones
This is not a truthful statement. It can be charged by Lightning, which plugs into any USB-A charger. Anyone buying an iPhone has that.
iPhone SE is still $399
Was it sold at a loss before?
Do you know any of these things?
Which means that people will through this cable in a drawer and use their old one (if it still works properly).
One reason I loved getting a new iPhone was getting a new cable, charger and headphones since my old one's were usually beat after 2-3 years. So this is a huge pain in the wallet, as well as inconvenient.
Nonsense. I have tons of USB-A to Lightning cables. They cost dollars.
> since my old one's were usually beat after 2-3 years
What on earth are you doing to them?
But if you don’t like apple’s cables, buy a replacement from the supermarket or corner store. They cost less than a cup of coffee.
And cheap USB-A Lightning cables are crap. Even expensive ones from Anker are crap. Apple made ones are okay, but have poor strain relief, so eventually they crap out too.
Some background on how Apple "detects" their own charging bricks:
https://learn.adafruit.com/minty-boost/icharging
However, for USB-C, I'm sure any charging brick will do.
They are clearly stating what does and does not come in the box at the price. They clearly state the price. You either think what comes is worth it in the box or you don’t. They could exclude the power adapter while simultaneously increasing the price by $200 per unit. If people do not like it, they won’t buy it.
I don’t understand why there is this expectation that something is “owed” to the consumer market. If this was a bad decision on their part, and it drives a lot of consumers away from their products, it will show up in their sales numbers and they will course correct. Sort of how they did on their Mac keyboards.
My guess is that no one will care about the missing power adapter. I certainly don’t. If it increases their margin, good for them. If it is offsetting increased build expenses elsewhere, fine.
Also I would imagine $30 on a $700-$1000 device doesn’t really move the needle for most buyers. My sales taxes on that device will add up to more than that.
Because price gouging is immoral.
If Apple was on the margins financially and needed to raise prices to stay in business, that would be one thing. Apple, however, is replete with surplus assets and is taking hard-earned money from other peoples' pockets simply because it can.
There are an awful lot of far more economically productive uses the proceeds of Apple's defacto price increase could be put towards instead of further enriching Apple senior management and shareholders.
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