Comments by "ke6gwf - Ben Blackburn" (@ke6gwf) on "Apple’s Billion Dollar Decision" video.

  1. This is not a good way to approach it, because often aftermarket chargers don't work properly with a new phone with higher power requirements, plus many people don't have the proper USB C charger setups yet, and so get the phone home and have no way to charge it. In addition, people have the expectation that a new phone will include the factory charger and cable, and so will be dissatisfied with Apple for cheaping out on a fractional cost, making them drive back to the Apple store and buy a charger in order to be able to use their phone. You live in a house and office overflowing with chargers, so you think everyone does, but a lot of people throw away any extra devices, or they lose them or the dog chews on them, or they only upgrade periodically, and only have lower power Micro USB chargers, and so to the rest of us, this looks like Apple is just being stingy and cheap. Now, if they stopped pre packaging it, but offered it as a free bonus for the people who needed one, they could save the money and waste on the people who don't, but not seem stingy for the people who need it, and just have a bucket of them wrapped in paper to hand to the people who needed them.
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