We mentioned on Top Stories Last Thursday that the iPhone 12 may come without a charger and without a headset, and the box may contain the iPhone only, in the latest rumor that has caused an uproar in the technical circles, and sparked a great disagreement among analysts about the reasons that make Apple make such a dangerous decision that will affect On the rest of the companies, respectively. Rumor has it the main reason behind this is to cut costs, but this does not seem to be the only rationale. In this article, we will mention more than one reason why the iPhone 12 or later will not contain accessories? Will this really happen?
The effect of weight loss and scales
Apple ships hundreds of millions of iPhones every year. When taking this point in terms of weight, for example, every extra weight from the package and every gram of extra weight has a huge impact.
First there is the packaging itself, which of course requires materials like paper, cardboard, and plastic. This is apart from simple packaging materials and warehouse shipping and storage costs. Considering the weight of the current 5W charger, we will find it at 23 grams, and when you add the EarPods, which are another 12 grams, the weight will only be 35 grams for the physical accessories, not the additional packaging required for them.
This means that by getting rid of these two attachments, Apple will reduce the weight of each iPhone by at least 35 grams, and perhaps this can reduce the size of the case and this makes us say 40 grams is a reduction, a number that does not seem like much in itself, but for 200 million IPhone, we are talking about 8 billion grams, or 8000 tons of weight that Apple will provide annually.
In other words, in one year Apple could save the equivalent weight of ten Boeing 747s or about half the weight of an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, all just by removing two accessories from the box of each iPhone.
In terms of dimensions, the smaller packaging size also means that more products can be transported in fewer shipments, and what may take four trucks may require only two trucks, which again leads to a significant reduction in the environmental impact on these types of metrics.
Reducing electronic waste
The European Union has worked over the past few years to reduce e-waste, and to urge the adoption of a unified and common shipping standard for everyone and be of Type C, for more details on this topic, read this article - Link So, Apple may have decided not to include a charger in the box that would be in response to EU standards and that would benefit it in the first place.
This would encourage users to rely on fewer chargers or share one or two chargers per household at most, which reduces waste.
Saving and reducing costs
Of course, it is not only about the environment, Apple can of course also lower its costs by removing the accessories, and again this applies not only to the cost of producing the accessories themselves, but also to the packaging, shipping and storage costs.
And every year, the accessories that Apple includes in its iPhone box become redundant for several reasons:
◉ A user might buy a new iPhone, and give the old one to a family member, as they can often share the charger, and this often happens. About myself I charge my iPhone XS Max and iPhone 6 with the same charger.
USB chargers in general are becoming increasingly popular. It is possible that most iPhone buyers may have more than one charger, especially replacing the slow iPhone charger (except for last year's iPhone Pro models) with a fast one.
◉ Most of the users may charge the iPhone via the USB port of a computer or Mac.
◉ Wireless charging is becoming more and more popular and attention is getting started, and wired chargers will inevitably be less needed.
Not many people use headphones with their iPhones because it is no longer a music player in the first place or they may upgrade to better headphones, and like chargers, wireless earbuds are becoming more and more popular.
Daring to take the first step to change
As Apple's bold habit of taking the first step in change and then imitating it by the rest of the companies successively, as Apple is looking to move towards the step of introducing the iPhone without ports and thus removing accessories and reducing users' dependence on them. Once people get used to the lack of a charger, for example, we will find very strong competitions, especially the strong emergence of wireless chargers. The same can be said for headphones, especially considering the bluetooth earbuds that are widely available in the market now.
AirPods support
If the iPhone case does not contain the wired EarPods, then there is no doubt that the user will go to the AirPods instead, or to compete with the Beats headphones.
One last comment
All the previous reasons are clearly in the interest and benefit of Apple from additional profit by making you buy the charger and headphones, as well as saving on transportation and storage expenses. The unpleasant news is that companies like to imitate Apple, so you may see companies successively doing like Apple and removing accessories to start a new world, which is to buy a phone only, then buy the charger, then the headset, and then the rest of the accessories.
There may be other reasons why Apple made the move to provide an iPhone without accessories, so do you see other reasons for that? Let us know in the comments.
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