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Honest question, who are the people who need more chargers? Definitely being anecdotal but everyone in my circle is drowning in generations of random usb adaptors, myself included. I’ve been very supportive of removing wasteful redundancy but again, this is subjective

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While that's true right now, it might not be true a few years in the future if manufacturers stop including them. Also, people are more likely to use dangerous counterfeit chargers (Amazon sells plenty!) if they don't get one included in the box. Considering how many devices run off USB nowadays, having a couple extra laying around the house isn't that big of a deal.

I have tons of chargers because I have had a smart phone for ten+ years. Most of the chargers are usb, not USB-C, so that won't help me if I buy an iPhone, although I have an old cable so that would be fine.

However anybody buying their first phone, anybody selling the old phones or anybody wanting to take advantage of fast charging would need a new(er) charger they might not have.

Many people who hoard chargers still hang on to old chargers that only do the 5W standard. For modern devices fast charging is very useful especially for high battery capacity devices. I've recycled all chargers that don't support any of the fast charging standards.

I now have tons of USB C to lightening cables laying around the house with nothing to plug them into. So I either have to go buy USB C chargers or toss what I have. While the idea was a good one, the execution has been complete BS

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