Recently, Apple announced the environmental protection report card of the past two years in the official public account.
Due to the heavy use of plastic, copper, tin and zinc for power adapters, the iPhone 12 has been estimated to have mined 550,000 tons less copper, tin and zinc since the accessory was no longer included in the packaging, the report said. Eliminating power adapters from the equipment's packaging helped avoid more than 2 million tons of carbon emissions, equivalent to shutting down nearly 500,000 cars for a year.
At the same time, Apple said that no longer comes with a power adapter, which is a bold change for Apple and a very necessary move for our planet.
On March 14, the Daily Mail quoted analysts as saying that Apple's removal of headphones and chargers from the iPhone box saved at least £5 billion in total. Among them was not only the reduced cost of chargers and headphones, but also reduced transport costs and an additional £225 million from spare parts sales.
Although it has contributed to the earth's carbon neutrality cause, some fruit powders do not buy it, they said: after buying Apple products, they also have to buy additional chargers, so there is no saving in environmental protection, but Apple has saved money, but it has made consumers pay more.
Some people even joked that "not selling mobile phones saves more".
However, some netizens said that the right to choose should be left to consumers.
China smartphone industry market share
According to IDC statistics, data from IDC's China Mobile Phone Tracking Report shows that China's smartphone shipments in 2020 are about 326 million units, and China's Huawei, vivo, OPPO, and Xiaomi are among the top five in China's smartphone shipments. Among them, Huawei ranked first with annual shipments of 125 million units, with a market share of 38.3%; Vivo shipped 0.58 billion units, with a market share of 17.7%, ranking second; OPPO shipments of 0.57 billion units, with a market share of 17.4%, ranking third. In the third quarter of 2021, China's smartphone market shipped about 80.8 million units, down 4.7% year-on-year.
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