It’s always a bit suspicious when someone takes something away from you then they try to convince you that it’s for your benefit.
That’s exactly what happened with smartphones recently or iPhone if we say:
Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and there is no doubt that plenty of others soon have decide to no longer give you a charger in the box and every single one of these companies has said we’re doing this to protect the environment.
Not giving a charger is actually better for environment because yes on the face of it of course everything else stayed the same then shipping a phone without a charger means you can use a smaller box and it also means one less plastic brick that might one day end up in a landfill site.
PHONES: apple wireless charger
If we take example of phones Samsung’s new galaxy s21 ultra box compared to old one s20 ultra box is half the size.
Not everything does stay the same as soon as the company decides that they’re not going to send a charger with their phone.
It creates knock-on effects like just for starters it’s going to mean a lot of people will end up buying their own.
Think about it if you just use your own charger you’re not getting the charging speed that you’re paying for.
If you’re using a three-year-old brick you’re probably not getting half of the charging speed that your phone is capable of
CHARGER DON’T LAST FORVEVER:apple wireless charger
The fact people lose them if you just carry on using a charger that you’ve already been using for three years for another three years then there’s a list of reasonable chance that something is going to go wrong with either the brick or the cable that specifically made to fit that brick.
You might end up buying a new one anyways. The whole concept of not giving someone a new charger it rests on their ability to be able to use their old one.
RESELLING: apple wireless charger
When you buy a new phone you sell or give away the old phone including the charger that came with it.
So assuming that at some point within the three years or so that you use your new phone you decide to buy a new charger for it.
Most significantly, we’ve got to factor in not just the packaging that comes with the charger but all the extra environmental damage that comes with having a separate item that needs to be delivered.
SUSTAINABILITY: apple wireless charger
Sustainability is good we need to look after our planet but what kind of makes this move in particular thing a little is the fact that one it is not the best move for the planet more on that in a minute but also the contradiction.
If we take example of Samsung within one day of Apple saying that they were no longer going to give a charger Samsung came galloping out of the woodwork.
If you buy galaxy you’ll get a charger team Samsung Xiaomi was basically the same if these companies they genuinely believed what they were saying and they were preaching the fact that something that they’re choosing to do is better than something someone else is choosing to do.
Apple has almost built a reputation for doing this kind of thing just trimming what they deemed as necessary .
Apple has never put a lot of weight on chargers that’s been very evident from how far behind they were versus the competition and they’ve never said their phones were great because they came with chargers.
So, this was a controversial decision at least with Apple felt purposeful but Apple has a different issue they say they’re removing the charger to help the environment.
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WIRELESS CHARGING: apple wireless charger
Apple is strongly promoting the fact that their new i phones can charge wirelessly using the snap-on attachment and it’s looking pretty likely that from the iPhone 13 onwards you might have to charge like this because the phones may not even have physical parts at all.
Magsafe and wireless charging in general flows in the opposite direction to eco- friendliness because not only do you have to buy magsafe as a separate item but its own box but even that doesn’t come with the charger but you would need to get the right speed from it.
Most importantly wireless charging is inefficient because you’ve got to pass power through three or four layers of material you’ve to basically create an electromagnetic field just to get it to cross and by transferring energy like this a lot of it ends up as a byproduct heat.
Magsafe is about as good as wireless charging gets it has magnets in the system to mean that the coils can line up as efficiently as possible.
BETTER CHARGING: apple wireless charger
We’ve actually started seeing charges based on gallium nitride which because it’s more efficient can deliver the same output by using fewer materials and fitting into a smaller brick .
It’s so much smaller that you could realistically have a pretty powerful 30 watt charger that actually fits into these one of these new slim boxes.
The most important aspect of gallium nitride is everytime you charge your phone using it it’s actually wasting less energy.
Gallium nitride chargers are upto 25% more energy efficient than just using a normal silicon charger which means it could be 70% more efficient than using the wireless chargers that we are getting currently pushed.
With the gallium nitride chargers there is less heat generated and so they have a longer lifespan.
