Source: Beijing Business Daily
On April 22, World Earth Day, Apple announced the environmental protection report card of the past two years, in which the topic of "no charger" caused heated discussion among netizens. Apple said that power adapters require a lot of use of materials such as plastic, copper, tin and zinc. Since the iPhone 12 is no longer included with the accessory, an estimated 550,000 tons of copper, tin and zinc have been mined.
Apple also said that the removal of power adapters in the device's packaging helped avoid more than 2 million tons of carbon emissions, equivalent to shutting down nearly 500,000 cars for a year.
"No longer including a power adapter is a bold change for Apple and a necessary move for our planet."
On the evening of the 24th, #Apple said that not sending a charger has saved 550,000 tons of ore #Rushed to the first place in Weibo's hot search, and most netizens did not buy this statement. Some netizens said, "Don't you still have to buy it?" It is said as if the mobile phone does not use a charger to charge", and even some people joke that "not selling mobile phones saves more".
But some people also believe that "the charging head is not often broken, the data cable is often broken", and a large number of old users really do not need the charging head.
Some netizens said that the right to choose should be left to consumers.
In fact, just a few days ago, another piece of apple news was also on the hot search.
Earlier this month, Apple was ordered by a Brazilian judge to compensate an iPhone buyer who did not receive a charging plug for not sending a charger.
According to Tecmundo, a local media outlet quoted by Phoenix.com, Judge Vanderlei Caires Pinheiro ruled that Apple was guilty of illegal "married sale" ( married sale " .
In court, Apple defended that it did not send a charger and was fined, the iPhone came with a C2L data cable, and the USB-C interface charger abounded, not necessarily to use Apple's original style. In addition, Apple once again reiterates that its approach is for the sake of environmental protection.
According to Brazil's Consumer Protection Law (CDC), devices such as smartphones must be equipped with chargers or sold separately, but they cannot be sold separately to be fully functional. The judge insisted that the charging cable provided by the iPhone could not be used with other charging plugs, so consumers had to buy Apple's products. The judge asked Apple to compensate the user in 5,000 Brazilian reals (about 6943 yuan).
According to Interface News, 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 pounds 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.
Ben Wood, principal analyst at CCSInsight, said: "Apple is an environmental leader in the mobile phone industry, and eliminating chargers and headphones is one of the many attempts it is making. Of course, Apple's removal of chargers and headphones when selling iPhones is also a small means of cost compression. ”