As we all know, since the iPhone 12, Apple has no longer provided chargers for the iPhone, nor headphones, only a data cable. Environmental protection said that this is for environmental protection, we can benefit the old charging head, old headphones, reduce the burden on the earth.
Apple also listed specific data, saying that current users have more than 700 million pairs of lightning interface headphones, 2 billion original Apple chargers and billions of third-party chargers.
Apple also calls on other manufacturers to come together to protect the environment, in fact, it is to pull everyone into the water together, to avoid doing it on their own family, being spat at, if everyone does this, there is no way to spit it out.
However, other domestic machines did not get fooled later, although some brands followed a few, but then did not follow, or continue to send chargers, headphones and so on.
But Apple is still bent on going its own way, and recently released its own environmental report card for 2 years, saying that it strives to reduce carbon emissions from design, manufacturing, to use, recycling, and in every Apple product.
Apple said it spent a lot of effort on research and development, eliminating the plastic film that covered the iPhone box and reducing the amount of plastic used by 600 tons. Instead of coming with a charger, this action has saved an estimated 550,000 tons of copper, tin and zinc ore.
In addition, Apple also said that in order to be more environmentally friendly, various research and development investments are made, and recycled materials are used to meet environmental protection requirements. For example, 100% recycled gold is used for motherboard plating and front and rear camera wiring. 100% recycled rare earth elements are used in all magnets...
But then immediately some experts came to punch in the face, saying that Apple's so-called environmental protection is actually an excuse for reducing costs for itself, and it is environmentally friendly, but consumers are not environmentally friendly, and eventually more costs are generated, because chargers and headphones still have to be bought.
The agency believes that Apple's removal of headphones and chargers from the box of the iPhone has saved Apple at least 5 billion pounds (about 41.45 billion yuan) in 2 years, and the end result is that users buy them again, which is not environmentally friendly at all.
In addition, because the mobile phone does not have a charger and headphones, users buy accessories, so that Apple has received 225 million pounds (about 1.8 billion yuan) of accessories sales revenue in the past two years.
Counting down every year, Apple has earned 207+900 million yuan, that is, 21.6 billion yuan. Consumers spend more money, Apple makes more money, and also gets a good reputation for environmental protection, apple's abacus is really good.