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How about when you buy your phone you also buy a charger if you dont have one. There simple problem simple solution.

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I guess you missed the point they were making.

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Was the point that it’s less environmentally friendly to sell phones without a charger?

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Yes, if you also have to purchase a charger, which comes with its own packaging, especially if you order that charger for delivery, separate from the phone. But companies like to lie and say they’re excluding required peripherals for environmental reasons, when really it’s just another profit line on their balance sheet.

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OR. The cell phone vendor gets a big box of chargers along with a consignment of phones. “Do you need a charger?” “Yes.” “Here you go.” “No I already have one.” “Okay, have a nice day sir.”

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7 points

That’s just falling for it

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Well, this is reasonable IF the price of the phone reflects the ~$20 discount of no hardware. Bet you $20 it doesn’t lol.

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Have you never heard of adapters?

And, in the end, we a have to decide on one standard. There used to be tons of different cables, and that wasn’t exactly a better situation. Better to just bite the bullet and say this is the standard moving forward.

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I’ll bet my left nut that you don’t have a male USB-A to female USB-C adapter that can support fast charging. So you’ll still end up ordering one from Amazon - a local store is unlikely to carry one.

USB-A to USB-C is the current standard. I am convinced they include a USB-C to USB-C cable because most people don’t have those chargers, so they’ll be more likely to order one with their phone.

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USB-A doesn’t carry enough voltage to support USB-C fast charging rates. So even if you have an adapter (I have a few), you’re not getting the best performance from your devices.

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Is there actually a major phone company defaulting to shipping their phones with C to C???

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Who in 2023 doesn’t have a USB-C to outlet charging adaptor?

How the hell are they charging all their other devices that definitely have USB-C ports on them?

Weird thing to complain about.

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You’re describing a USB-C -USB-A cable. OOP describes a USB-C - USB-C cable. I didn’t have an outlet brick with a USB-C until I bought my current phone (S23 U) which only came with a cable like the one in the post

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I have a dozen regular USB blocks from the before fore times. But I only have one C block from my first pixel phone. Now they all come with C to C which are borderline useless to I had to buy a bunch of A to C cables to use the old blocks.

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I didn’t have one until I had to get a new phone last year that came with one. If it just came with a USB-C to USB-C cable and no brick, I wouldn’t have had a single thing to charge the phone with. I have no USB-C port on my PC. I didn’t have my PS5 yet. And I didn’t even have any other USB-C using devices. Tons of devices still just have Micro-USB ports. Especially if they are cheap.

IDK about you, but I’m not getting or updating all my shit every few months. I still only have this phone, that one brick and now a PS5 and its controllers that use USB-C.

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Meanwhile he has 20+ chargers and bricks.

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Ironically, delivery has a much lower carbon footprint than going somewhere and buying it at the store

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Not if you live in a place where walking to a store would not be life-threatening.

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Not necessarily maybe you live a long way from the store. If I wanted to get a USB-C adaptor I’d probably have to go to the other end of the street, but that’s because I live in the town centre.

From where I used to live that would be a 10 mile walk, which while totally doable is a bit far in my opinion, especially if I have literally anything else I want to do with my weekend.

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