> 1. The lawsuit started when Apple dropped the chargers coming with the phone, but had just changed the cable connection, so you would need a new charger anyway.
That makes no sense, Lightning was introduced in 2012. And the older Dock Connector chargers had detachable USB cables (I don't remember Apple ever using bonded chargers), so you could have used your existing charger with a new cable.
And an other commenter reports that the judge commented:
> telling Apple that it could help the environment in other ways, such as giving its devices USB-C support.
But Lightning predates USB-C by 2 years. There was no USB-C to switch to when Apple introduced Lightning.
And I can understand and emphasise with immediately switching over from and obsoleting all the "brand new" Lighting-based docks & co.
Apple has started the switch with a few ipads (and obviously all the macs), and I've been expecting the deprecation of Lightning this year or the next, as it's been a decade, which is about how long the Dock Connector existed before the introduction of Lightning (though it survived Lightning for a few years in older devices and developing countries, IIRC Apple stopped selling the last dock connector device around 2015).
> 4. If Apple doesn't give the charger, or sell it really cheap, Brazillians WILL use chinese knockoffs that set themselves on fire, it is just the reality in the country where all tech is crazy expensive.
But how is that Apple's responsibility? And surely they'll do that either way so they can have multiple chargers?