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Re:Apple must pay a man $1,000 for not including a power ada... by Jyaif on Thursday April 21, 2022 @01:46PM (#31112766)
> knocked off 30 dollars if you didn't want the charger

A charger cost them less than $1. Checkout AliExpress to get an idea of the real price of things. Of course because they sell so many iPhones, that still represents in the order of 100 million dollars saved per year for Apple.

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Re:Apple must pay a man $1,000 for not including a power ada... by thenickdude on Thursday April 21, 2022 @04:07PM (#31114582)
Have you seen a comparative teardown of an Apple charger vs a $1 Aliexpress charger? They're completely different internally because the cheap ones skip all the required isolation and noise filtering, and usually deliver only half of their rated current.
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