On December 30, according to the report of Zhongxin Jingwei, the "Leadership Message Board" of the People's Network showed that in response to the message that netizens reflected that "it is a little difficult to buy a mobile phone with a charger now", the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology replied on the 28th that the problem does not involve personal health and life and property safety, etc., the individual needs of consumers are different, and the feasibility of industry management needs to be further studied.
Netizens left a message on the People's Network on December 6 that it is a little difficult to buy a mobile phone with its own charger now. Some mobile phone manufacturers in the name of environmental protection, in the name of the sale of mobile phones to cancel the charger, is it possible that consumers do not charge the mobile phone after canceling the charger? Selling only one mobile phone device not only increases the purchase cost of consumers, but also wastes the time and energy of consumers to buy mobile phones, and they want to buy a mobile phone with a charger in one step. Finally, it also increases consumers' bad feelings about the concept of environmental protection, environmental protection must require consumers to pay more? Some original chargers sell for a few hundred bucks online. It is hoped that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology can protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology replied on December 28 that on the issue of separate sales of mobile phones and power adapters, manufacturers have formulated their own marketing strategies under the premise of protecting consumers' right to know and their right to make independent choices, and clearly informed consumers of products and accompanying materials when promoting sales, product packaging and lists, and consumers choose whether to buy or not. At present, some manufacturers do not attach chargers in accordance with the convention, breaking the habitual thinking of consumers, such as Apple, Samsung, etc., there are also two versions of the simultaneous sale without chargers and chargers, such as Millet, which are in line with the principle of consumer autonomy, on the other hand, because the problem does not involve personal health and life and property safety, etc., the individual needs of consumers vary greatly, and the feasibility of industry management needs to be further studied.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that in the next step, we will call on enterprises to revise their marketing strategies, promote manufacturers to effectively take into account the relationship between the actual needs of users' consumption, environmental protection and commercial interests, encourage and support the marketing strategies of users' personalized choices, and protect users' right to know and their right to make independent choices. At the same time, guide consumers to correctly view the problem.
Apple Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in 2010 and is wholly owned by APPLE OPERATIONS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED.
Samsung (China) Investment Co., Ltd. was established in 1996, wholly owned by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and currently has a total of 9 controlling enterprises in China.
On October 14, 2020, at the Apple conference, Apple said that the iPhone product line will no longer come with power adapters and EarPods, but will instead come with a USB-C to lightning fast charging cable. The packaging of the product will be reduced as a result. Apple says all of these initiatives could reduce carbon emissions by more than 2 million tons per year. Subsequently, Samsung also announced that some models will cancel the random charger. However, the move sparked consumer protests. According to Brazilian tech news agency Tilt, Apple was fined nearly $2 million for violating the Consumer Code in the Brazilian state of São Paulo for lacking chargers.