[qz2]

I don’t get the charger whining from people. If you add the price of the charger and the wired earphones to the price of the phone then with inflation it’s cheaper than the handsets were in 2018.

I’ve got 7 Apple chargers here as well. This is a completely rational decision which is transitional while we all move to USB-C slowly.

Your general point is right but it’s not the state of the company you need to look at but the direction they are travelling and Apple appears to be heading in the least wrong direction.

[dingaling]

> then with inflation it’s cheaper than the handsets were in 2018

Inflation has consistently outpaced increase in salaries, so it still costs more on real terms

> I’ve got 7 Apple chargers here as well

And yet there's a substantial market for third-party chargers, even the smallest convenience stores sell them.

From personal experience the majority of everyday folk have one or two chargers in their house, and as many cables. If they sell or giveaway an old phone then a charger has to go with it.

[tobyhinloopen]

I agree. I got like 10 chargers at home and instead use a wireless charger.

[HexagonalKitten]

I imagine the people most annoyed about this don't have any, or know that they needed to. (Because you're hogging them all. Way to go!)

[starik36]

I am not sure it's whining. Apple is cutting costs while pretending it's for a larger cause.

I might also have 7 chargers, but none of them are for USB-C - the type of the cable that they did include with the box. So I still have to buy a charging brick.

[1stranger]

You have 7 chargers and not a single lightning cable? Or a wireless charger?

[qz2]

Well you won’t have to next time :)