Just a few months after Apple bugged Apple for not including a charger with the iPhone anymore, two competitors are now doing the exact same thing.
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun confirmed that the Mi 11 will come without a charger and Samsung removed a Facebook post over the weekend mocking Apple’s move, which may indicate that the Galaxy S21 won’t have one like this either will be released in January.
When Apple announced the iPhone 12 and all future releases would ship without chargers, Samsung and Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi took the opportunity to fool the Cupertino company.
Samsung posted a photo of a Galaxy charger, with the caption ‘included with your Galaxy’.
A day later, Xiaomi tweeted a video promoting its Mi 10T Pro showing that a charged person had been taken out of the box, captioned: ‘Don’t worry, we didn’t leave anything out of the box.’
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In October, after Apple announced that iPhones would no longer come with chargers, Samsung posted this message to Facebook. It has since been removed, leading some to speculate that a charger will not be included in the upcoming Galaxy S21
Lei unveiled the M11 over the weekend, stating that the packaging was ‘light and thin’ because the company had decided not to include a charger anymore.
Like Apple, he said the decision was “in response to calls from technology and environmental protection.”
“Everyone has a lot of idle chargers these days, which is both a burden to you and the environment,” said Lei.
We are well aware that this decision may not be understood or even complained. Is there a better solution between industry practice and environmental protection? ‘
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi roasted Apple a day after the announcement of the charger. Less than four months later, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun confirmed that the Mi 11 will also come without it
Apple unveiled the new iPhone 12 at a live event on October 13, revealing that the $ 799 smartphone would not come with a charger and EarPods, just a Lightning to USB-C charging cable.
Assuming users didn’t already have them, those accessories would cost an additional $ 90.
Or they can pay $ 39 for a MagSafe charger and $ 49.99 for Beats Flex wireless earphones in their place.
Lisa Jackson, Apple’s VP for Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, said at the event, “Customers already have more than 700 million Lightning headphones, and many customers have transitioned to a wireless experience.”
Apple announced that no longer including a charger and EarPods with iPhones would cut CO2 emissions by more than 2.2 million tons per year and limit rare earth mining
“There are also over 2 billion Apple power adapters in the world, not counting the billions of third-party adapters.”
“We take these items out of the iPhone box, reducing CO2 emissions and avoiding the extraction and use of precious materials.”
The tech giant claims that the decision to remove the two accessories will cut more than 2.2 million tons of CO2 emissions per year.
According to Apple estimates, this amounts to nearly 450,000 cars being taken off the road every year
But Apple customers were outraged, with many calling the ecological rationale a lame excuse for hiding the desire to charge more for less.
A Twitter user pointed out that Apple has eliminated the charger and EarPods to reduce packaging, but is now encouraging people to buy two separate devices in separate packaging.
On Twitter, iPhone users expressed anger at Apple’s decision to stop shipping chargers and EarPods with new phones
‘Soon they’ll take your screen and you’ll have to attach one with a dongle,’ another tweeted. Everyone on the hype train for a new iPhone is a shill. ‘Oh, it is now 5G ready!’ So there are plenty of better, cheaper brands. With a charger. ‘
Ben Wood, head of research at CCS Insight, said at the time of the announcement that while it was easy to be skeptical of Apple’s announcement, “the environmental benefits cannot be ignored.”
Apple CEO shows off the new iPhone 12 at a launch event in October
He predicted sharply, “Apple’s decision will likely mean that in many cases the days when a charger and headphones came with a new smartphone are over.”
Samsung has not made an official announcement, but it would follow a pattern for the company: according to MacRumor, Samsung plunged into Apple in 2016 to remove the headphone jack from the iPhone 7, but then immediately released the 2018 Galaxy A8 without headphones. . jack.