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Well, ignoring the implicit prejudice on your comment, it actually does not work that way in Brazil.

This was a decision made by a judge in Brazil and the way for Apple to appeal will be to go to the next instance (not sure if second or third in this case), which will be a different court with different judges.

And differently from the US, judges here are not elected nor appointed by the executive (with the sad exception of the supreme court); they pass exams, are nominated with stability (can't be fired without just cause), that way they are pretty much discouraged of doing "shakedows" or accepting "case or phones", as they risk losing a very comfortable and prestigious position.

This is the kind of shallow and ignorant bullshit I expect to see in places like reddit. Really /r/worldnews material.

Or you know, the government applying its laws to protect the consumer?

in that case they probably don't give a f to the environment. Apple could resolve the issue by eg having a free-charger-coupon/card into the box.

So why don't they?

Those are often the same things in some countries

Often it's the latter until it becomes the former.