It is a lesson that many of us learn 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 shipping wall chargers with its iPhones earlier this year. In the biggest twist, just two months later, Xiaomi now considers removing wall chargers from phone cases a great idea. I bet there are a lot of people at Apple who say: mm-hmm.
As seen by Verge, Saturday CEO Xiaomi Lei Jun announced that the company’s future Mi 11 phone will not include a charger. Lei, who commented on the Chinese social network Weibo, said the company has decided not to include chargers to protect the environment, adding that everyone has many idle chargers. Xiaomi will launch Mii in China on months.
leiThe announcement comes more than two months after the company made fun of Apple on social networks, showing the charger in the box for Mi 10T Pro.
“Don’t worry, I didn’t leave anything out of the box with # Mi10TPro,” Xiaomi wrote Twitter shortly after Apple has debuted iPhone 12 and announced its new upload policy.
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But Xiaomi wasn’t the only one who laughed. Samsung also made fun of its rival and posted a photo of his Galaxy charger on social networks with the caption: “Included with Galaxy”. However, Samsung was recently caught deleting its posts about the charger because … it is it’s said also loads the chargers out of the box with the Galaxy S21 series, which seems to be launches in January.
When Apple announced that it does not include a charger or headphones, for environmental reasons back to October, reasoned that customers already had over 700 million lightning headphones and that many were using wireless headphones anyway. He said there were two billion Apple power adapters in circulation, as well as billions of extra third-party adapters, and that removing both items from 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 box to a USB-C in Lightning. Given that almost every previous iPhone came with a USB-A wall charger, it’s a bit hard 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. If Apple’s move does Xiaomi, Samsung and others, to reduce their waste of charger, are no longer at hand. But when you say you want to reduce waste, focus on effectively reducing waste, instead of selling chargers separately. The planet cannot afford empty promises.