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You think it should be illegal to raise prices?

“Hey, we usually give you this extra stuff, but now we removed it because we want to charge money for it instead, also the environment”

It's a new version of the iPhone, with a new price.

It would be a different case if Apple stopped including the charger and earpods with the iPhone 11.

They should be required to mark it accordingly on the box with bold marking, on the front face: “I come without charger and without earplugs”

IIRC, they did stop including it with the SE (or some other model that wasn't refreshed at the time the policy was instituted).

You don’t know if that’s true and Apple hasn’t hidden the fact that they removed it.

I think that saying it is for the environment and increasing prices while removing things from the box is false advertising and should be fined.

Also, it should be marked prominently on the box that the device doesn’t come with a charger or earplugs and won’t be self-sufficient. Let’s just regulate by making any device sold without charger display a 2x2cm logo on the box saying « I come without charger ».

I don’t buy a car expecting it to be missing tires or wheel.

Expectations do change though. In the UK, it used to be the expectation that appliances came with no power plug at all.

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