- There is a country where Apple must respect the Law and must include your EarPods in the same box as the iPhone.
- Failure to do so could result in a fine of up to 350 thousand euros.
- Their smartphones costing between 20,000 and 40,000 pesos, nor include charger and headphones in the rest of the world.
Apple unveiled its new family of smartphones: iPhone Mini, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro and the 12 Pro Max. Every year it grabs the world's attention, but this 2020, it did it especially, its most high-tech smartphone costs almost 40 thousand pesos.
The minimum that can be expected from a phone of that price is that it comes with a charger and headphones, as all brands include, but the Cupertino giant justifies its decision with smaller boxes, supposedly to have less impact on the environment.
Although by law, there is a country where you will have to include headphones, you can not skip that rule. The firm announced that in the world, it would remove EarPod wired headphones and wall chargers from iPhone cases and that it would the only accessory included in the box is a USB-C to Lightning cable, This allows you to send more devices on a single pallet.
But in France, you can't skip including headphones in the box of your iPhone. The law requires that ?every smartphone must include a hands-free kit, or headset, to protect children 14 years old or younger from electromagnetic radiation? Otherwise, companies could face a fine of up to 350,000 euros.
On the page of Apple in France, the new iPhone 12 contains a USB-C to Lightning cable and its EarPods, although it no longer has a charger.
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APPLE Has reasons for not including headphones and charger in its smartphones.
Apple says he has a reason by which it stops including headphones and chargers, and not only in the iPhone 12, but also in the iPhone 11, iPhone XR and iPhone SE, which would be because it would plan to reduce the environmental impact generated by its devices, by making its boxes smaller and increasing the amount of phone shipments, while reducing carbon emissions.
But it also increases its profits, because by selling headphones and charger separately, it has extra income. Another element that plays against Apple's idea of supposedly offering an environmentally friendly iPhone is that in addition to Francos, a law is about to be passed throughout Europe that requires technology brands to make their products compatible with USB-C chargers, so the idea of not including a charger could have become a political move by Apple. Apple to avoid penalties.
This, as it has introduced a new $19 20-watt power adapter, discontinuing the previous $29 18-watt charger. However, buying both would mean paying an additional $38 on top of what you are already paying for the iPhone 12.
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