Apple has announced that it will no longer provide chargers and earphones or earbuds with the iPhone 12 series of devices as part of its efforts to protect our planet’s environment from harmful gases.
But how good it will be for the earth’s environment is very difficult to see or evaluate, but it will surely prove to be a source of great income for the company.
Apple introduced 4 iPhone 12 series phones at its event on October 13 and unlike the previous models, these iPhones will now only come with a USB to Lightning cable.
The company said that ditching wall chargers and earbuds would lead to less mining, packaging and earth-warming carbon dioxide emissions.
The purpose of this announcement was to make Apple a more environmentally friendly company, for which it had committed to prevent the emission of harmful gases in July this year.
According to a report by technology website The Verge, Angelo Zeno, a senior analyst, said, “They are presenting this move as an environmentally friendly principle, but it is also a good financial move.”
Analysts said the move to 5G is a major reason Apple has focused on cost-cutting measures, including fewer accessories with phones.
5G support has been given in all the iPhones of this year, which are also the first such phones of this company.
However, making the technology a part of the phones made them more expensive than last year’s models.
Angelo Zeno estimates that the new iPhone 12 cost 30 to 35 percent higher than previous iPhones due to the use of radio frequency devices, and that’s why the company wants to reduce the cost of other aspects of the phone.
According to Jane Muenster, managing partner of venture capital firm Loop Ventures, not including chargers and earbuds in new phones might increase the company’s profits by at least one percent.
According to him, ‘I think this step is aimed at maintaining the current profit level of the phone’.
But in other aspects, this move will bring more profits to the company because people who buy new iPhones will need chargers and headphones, because there will be no fewer people who have chargers and headphones that work with the new devices. will
For example, if this year’s phones were sold in 2018’s numbers, i.e. more than 21 million, and 5 percent of them also decided to buy earbuds, the company would have an additional profit of $700 million.
Interestingly, buying the charger or headphones separately will increase packaging waste and emissions, but the blame will fall on other companies rather than Apple.
The new iPhone is getting a USB-C cable and that means chargers from many past iPhones won’t be compatible with them because they work on a Lightning cable.
So these users will need a USB wall charger or a wireless charger to use their new iPhones.
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2024-07-19 10:35:06
