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mrgsm021

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#2520796 10-Jul-2020 14:35

My additional thought is if Apple was really concerned about the environment and e-waste, then they should have introduced USB Type C on iPhones a long time ago, rather than sticking with lightning port, this also in turn creates unnecessary waste on the lightning cables.

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#2520798 10-Jul-2020 14:44

mrgsm021:

My additional thought is if Apple was really concerned about the environment and e-waste, then they should have introduced USB Type C on iPhones a long time ago, rather than sticking with lightning port, this also in turn creates unnecessary waste on the lightning cables.

Or another view is that Apple buyers have vested a lot in lightening accessories and so have many of the suppliers that Apple felt a sudden change to USB-C would have dumped a lot of e-waste at the landfills and irked a lot of their customers and suppliers.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2520808 10-Jul-2020 15:06

MikeB4:

mrgsm021:

My additional thought is if Apple was really concerned about the environment and e-waste, then they should have introduced USB Type C on iPhones a long time ago, rather than sticking with lightning port, this also in turn creates unnecessary waste on the lightning cables.

Or another view is that Apple buyers have vested a lot in lightening accessories and so have many of the suppliers that Apple felt a sudden change to USB-C would have dumped a lot of e-waste at the landfills and irked a lot of their customers and suppliers.

Didn't seem to trouble Apple last time.

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#2520811 10-Jul-2020 15:08

I thought that is the reason they bundled an adapter cable in some markets with phones?

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#2520843 10-Jul-2020 16:10

mrgsm021:

My additional thought is if Apple was really concerned about the environment and e-waste,

This has little to do with E-waste, its all about accountants... If they remove the charge from the box, they can make the box much thinner, ( potentially half as thin) , that's potentially up to twice and many phones on a pallet,- meaning much more $ per metric metre of shipping space. - let along cutting out the cost of a charging brick is ( although it will be minimal)

yeah, they will talk about waste and the environment, but if it saves them $$$ It goes to the head of the class

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#2520925 10-Jul-2020 19:47

On the would not bother me band wagon, wireless charges up the wazoo as well as bricks and cables.

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