It’s a lesson many of us learn throughout life: first they laugh at you and then they copy you. This is exactly what Xiaomi did when it mocked Apple for deciding stop sending wall chargers with their iPhones earlier this year. In the biggest of turns, just two months later, Xiaomi thinks that now charging the wall chargers of its phone booths is a good idea. I’m betting there are a lot of people at Apple who say: mm-hmm.
As you saw the Virgin, 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, he said the company had made the decision not to include chargers to protect the environment, adding that everyone has a lot of them idle chargers. Xiaomi will launch the Mii in China next Monday.
leiThe announcement comes more than two months after the company mocked Apple on social media by showing the box charger of its Mi 10T Pro.
“Don’t worry, we didn’t leave anything out of the box with the # Mi10TPro,” Xiaomi wrote Twitter soon after Apple released the iPhone 12 and announced its new charger policy.
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But Xiaomi wasn’t the only one laughing. Samsung also happily mocked its rival and released one photo of your Galaxy charger on social media with the caption: “Included in your Galaxy”. However, Samsung was recently surprised by deleting its posts on the charger because … it’s like this as supposed Also, the chargers in the box are charged with its Galaxy S21 series, which looks like it will release a Gener.
When Apple announced it did not include a charger or headphones for environmental reasons back to October, reasoned that customers already had more than 700 million lightning headphones and that many used wireless headphones anyway. He claimed that there were two billion Apple power adapters in circulation, as well as billions of other third-party adapters, and that taking both items out of the box was environmentally friendly.
The move was initially announced as a victory for the environment until people realized that Apple was changing the cable included in the iPhone 12 case for a USB-C to Lightning. Given that almost all previous iPhones came with a USB-A wall charger, it’s hard to defend the “everyone already has a charger” argument.
Doing things to minimize environmental waste is a good thing, and it’s a good thing we should all think about it. If Apple’s move does Xiaomi, Samsung and others to reduce the waste of the charger are at your disposal. But when you say you want to reduce waste, focus on reducing waste instead of selling chargers separately. The planet cannot afford empty promises.