Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones with charger

Re:Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones wi... by Nursie on Friday October 14, 2022 @12:20PM (#33205538)

Do you have a nintendo switch? The one that comes with it is like that - https://store.nintendo.com.au/au/nintendo-switch-ac-adapter....

See also Lenovo laptop chargers - https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/accessories-and-software/char...

I have a bunch of things like this around the house. I'm not trying to deny the existence of usb-c female power adapters, but IMHO they are a more recent phenomenon than usb-a female power adapters, and the male-ended usb-c power adapters that ship with many devices.

I'm not trying to justify whatever's going on in Brazil, but usb-c female to lightning or usb-a male to lightning would be generally easier to accomodate, for me. I also have (for instance) usb-a female sockets in the car.

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Re:Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones wi... by crazygringo on Friday October 14, 2022 @12:56PM (#33206049)

Oh, I see what you mean now.

Those are chargers that have an integrated cable that of course ends in male.

I really didn't know those still existed. It seems like such atrocious design -- the vast, vast majority of consumer electronics has moved to separating the charger and cable when using USB, precisely so you can reuse chargers and replace worn cables. I'm pretty shocked Nintendo and Lenovo are so backwards on this. Is there really a significant cost savings or something for them? It's so user-hostile.

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Re:Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones wi... by ars on Friday October 14, 2022 @01:07PM (#33206206)

I have a charger like that, I bought it when USB C cables were extremely expensive. So buying a charger with an integrated cable saved me a lot of money.

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Re:Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones wi... by Nursie on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:51AM (#33212738)

I do have a lot of chargers with the female port right on them, but they’re all A ports

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Re:Apple gets $19M fine in Brazil for not selling iPhones wi... by dathinab on Saturday October 15, 2022 @04:12PM (#33218192)

Both Lenovo and Nintendo did that initially because in the relatively early days of USB-C there had been quite a bunch of incorrectly produced USB-C cables on Amazone which kill your device.

Through it is without question pretty user hostile that they haven't updated their design wrt. this aspect in recent years.

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