It is a lesson that many of us have learned throughout our lives: first they laugh at you, then they copy you. That’s exactly what Xiaomi did when it mocked Apple for deciding stop sending wall chargers with their iPhones earlier this year. In the biggest twist, just two months later, Xiaomi now thinks that excluding wall chargers from its phone booths is a great idea. I bet there are a lot of people at Apple saying: mm-hmm.
As seen by The Verge, on Saturday, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun announced that the company’s next Mi 11 phone will not include a charger. Lei, who made the comments on the Chinese social network Weibo, said the company had made the decision not to include chargers to protect the environment, adding that everyone has many idle porters. Xiaomi will launch the Mii in China in Monday.
LawThe announcement comes more than two months after the company mocked Apple on social media, displaying the charger in the box of its Mi 10T Pro.
“Don’t worry, we didn’t leave anything out of the box with the # Mi10TPro,” Xiaomi wrote in Twitter Shortly after Apple debuted the iPhone 12 and announced its new carrier policy.
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But Xiaomi was not the only one who laughed. Samsung also made fun of its rival and posted a Galaxy charger photo on social networks with the caption: “Included in your Galaxy.” However, recently Samsung was caught deleting its posts on the charger because … it’s supposedly also eliminating the chargers in the box with its Galaxy S21 series, which looks like it will Release on January.
When Apple announced that it did not include a charger or headphones, for environmental reasons back to octoberber, concluded that customers already had more than 700 million lightning headphones and that many used wireless headphones anyway. He said there were two billion Apple power adapters in circulation, as well as billions of third-party adapters, and that removing the two items from the box was environmentally friendly.
The move was initially heralded as a victory for the environment until people realized that Apple was changing the cable included in the iPhone 12 case to a USB-C for Lightning. Considering that almost all previous iPhone came with a USB-A wall charger, it is a little difficult to defend the “everyone already has a charger” argument.
Doing things to minimize environmental waste is a good thing, and it is something we should all think about. If Apple’s move does Xiaomi, Samsung and others to reduce the waste of the charger, I take my hat off to them. But when you say you want to reduce waste, focus on reducing waste, rather than selling chargers separately. The planet cannot afford empty promises.