The REAL reason you don’t get a charger anymore.

You know, it's always a little suspicious when someone takes something from you, but then they try to convince you that it's for your own benefit. Well, that's exactly what happened recently with Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi smartphones and no doubt I have many others coming soon. I have decided to no longer offer you a

charger

at the checkout and each of these companies has said that we are doing this to protect the environment, but this made me think that not offering a

charger

is actually better for the environment because yes on the face . Of course, all else being equal, shipping a phone without a charger means you can use a smaller box and it also means one less brick of plastic that could one day end up in a landfill and with this logic you might consider the new ultra galaxy box.

Samsung's s21 compared to last year's s20 ultrabox and think, wow Samsung, you're so environmentally conscious that it's half the size of the heroes, but not everything stays the same as soon as a company decides they're not going to send. a charger with your phone creates chain effects, like just for starters I think it will mean a lot of people will end up buying their own, think about it, if you just use your old charger you won't get the charging speed for what you're paying for I mean To be honest, if you're using a three-year-old brick, you probably won't even get half the charging speed your phone is capable of.

Two chargers don't last forever. for the fact that people lose them if you continue using a charger that you've already been using for three years for another three years, then there is at least a

reason

able chance that something will go wrong with the brick or with the cable that is specifically made to fit that brick, so you might end up buying a new one anyway and the third thing I haven't

real

ly seen anyone talk about is that this whole concept of not giving someone a new charger is based on their ability to I might be able to use the old one, but I feel like the way it works in most households is that when you buy a new phone, you sell or give away the old phone, including the charger that comes with it, so assuming at some point within three years or so you can use your new phone you decide to buy it a new charger and immediately we have already used more packaging than the entire box of the last generation now you may be looking at me thinking well, don't be stupid, this is small but firstly, I specifically chose this charger because it was the most compact packaging I could find, but secondly, if you open it up, you

real

ize that to ship something like a charger on its own you need a lot of padding, so it doesn't There is only the cardboard on the outside, but a cardboard tray, a second layer of cardboard on the inside, not to mention an antistatic plastic bag, but the most important thing is that we must take into account not only the packaging that comes with the charger, but also all additional environmental aspects.

The damage that comes with having a separate item that needs to be delivered, such as the fact that a van has to make an extra trip to come drop the item off to me, but also the fact that this means we have to have a completely separate outer box that It takes up even more space in that truck than the entire box of the latest phone, but it doesn't end there because in all this charge removal frenzy, we've also quietly lost the headphones we used to have now if this s21 ultra had a headphone jack then okay, I think the headphone jack has been around long enough that it's fair to assume you have a pair, but this one doesn't have the headphone jack, how many people do you think randomly have a pair of USBC specific headphones? around the ones you'd really need for this five percent two percent, I mean sure wireless earbuds are booming right now, you could always go out and buy a pair of galaxy buds pro, but they're in a completely different price range. different, so the solution for a lot of people will be fine.

I'm going to go to amazon.com and buy the cheapest USB-C headphones I can find, so that's what I searched for and found a pair. It had nice compact packaging but it was out of stock so just to prove my point I ordered the regular version with headphone jack of those same headphones and this is what I got, let me be very clear, this is how the headphones from Last generation. When they came in the box, this is now pretty much one of your best options. Not only do I now have a worse experience with headphones than I would have had before.

I don't get that special akg tuned sound that I used to get, but more importantly, I've probably used three times as much packaging as if all of that was included in the original box and the Jordans are the worst part of this, that's why Amazon He handed me these headphones inside and inside to fill everything with plastic. Yes, to be clear, Amazon tries to make as few deliveries as possible and tries to have an outer box that roughly matches what comes inside, but the very fact that Amazon handles so many different types of items means that they can't.

It is possible to optimize the packaging as much as Samsung would, because when Samsung ships a phone it will be the same size every time, so they can come up with a system that means very little cardboard is used if everything you need for your phone comes in one. a single package, so yes, that box is bigger and yes, not everyone is going to use every single thing that comes inside, but only because of how well these pieces can fit together because each piece no longer needs its own. separate packaging and because everything can be delivered in one trip, I'd still be willing to bet that on average this is still better for the environment.

Kinda curious, do you think if I told people that subscribing to my channel was eco-friendly? I would, I don't know, but what I do believe is that this is just the beginning. I estimate that within a year or two many companies will stop even including free cases for the same

reason

s you probably do. I'm starting to get the picture if they do that four sets of packaging four separate delivery trips, don't get me wrong, sustainability is good, We have to take care of our planet, but what makes this particular move hurt a little is the fact that one is not the best move for the planet.

More on that in a minute but also to the contradiction like taking Samsung into a Apple day saying they were no longer going to give out a Samsung charger came galloping out of the woodwork saying Apple how could you guys not worry, we got them? If they buy a Galaxy, they will get a charger. The Samsung Xiaomi device was basically the same. Don't worry guys, we didn't leave anything out of the me 10 t box. Count us in now, if these companies really believed in what they said and preached the fact that something they choose to do is better than something someone else chooses to do, then it doesn't look good for them to start copying them. literally on your next phone, I think the strategy behind this was: let's hope people react badly to not having a charger.

Let's hope they all boycott Apple and if they do, they will come running to us, but as soon as these companies find out that the iPhone. 12 sold well, they were fine, looks like we might as well get away with it, let's just delete our previous post and pretend it never happened. Samsung actually did that and from this perspective you can cut Apple a little slack because at least they were being consistent. Apple has almost gained a reputation for doing this type of thing simply by cutting back on what they consider unnecessary courage and Apple has never put much weight on the accusations, which has been very evident by how far behind the competition they were. and they never said their phones were great because they came with charges and although this was a controversial decision at least with Apple it felt useful but Apple has a different problem they say they are removing the charger to help the environment but Some Some of their other actions seem to go in the opposite direction of that, like the cable that comes in the iPhone 12 box doesn't fit the old charger, so if you want to use the new cable, you need to get a new charger or two. , how they are the same company that for almost 10 years has insisted on using their own Lightning ports instead of the USBC that the rest of the industry has moved towards, resulting in a slew of Apple accessories that may not it can be used with Android and a lot of Android accessories that we can't use with iPhones and then there is Magsafe.

Apple is heavily promoting the fact that its new iPhones can be charged wirelessly using the snap-on accessory and it seems quite likely that From the iPhone 13 onwards, you may have to charge like this because the phones may not even charge again. have physical ports. I'm sure Android phones will do the same, but the point is that Magsafe and wireless charging generally flow in opposite directions. direction towards environmental friendliness because not only do you have to buy Magsafe as a separate item with its own box, but even that does not come with the charger, you would need to get the correct speeds which are sold as an extra for the Plus, and most importantly, wireless charging is inefficient because you have to pass energy through three or four layers of material, you basically have to create an electromagnetic field just to transmit it, and when you transfer energy like this, a lot of it ends up as heat byproduct.

Another day I was reading an article by Eric on debugger.com and discovered that he was using 47 more power to fully charge his phone using wireless technology and when you think about charging your phone possibly every day. for potentially three years that you could use it, that's going to add up to a lot, not to mention how we also discovered that some wireless chargers were actually consuming power without even charging anything, so now power is wasted 24 hours a day. It's fair for Magsafe, it's as good as wireless charging. It has magnets in the system, which means the coils can be aligned as efficiently as possible, but compared to wired charging it's still not very good, so what I'm trying to say here is That's right, the companies They want to be green, but what we must keep in mind is that they only want to be green to the extent that it generates profits and as long as people feel bad about the state of the planet and feel good.

Regarding the purchase of seemingly green products, I think we will see a lot of these types of decisions made and that's fine, that's how companies work, but what I do think is false about this whole no-charger situation is the way in which they sell us does not take into account all the knock-on effects it creates, as if it were very easy for the company to say that we have made our boxes this percentage smaller and therefore we have reduced our carbon footprint by this amount, but that It's just the only thing they've reduced their carbon footprint, I'm sure from the company's perspective this looks great on paper, it looks like they're saving the planet, but what's really happening is that carbon footprint. carbon is being transferred to the consumer who now has to potentially go out and buy their own charger, potentially even their own headphones, all of which should have their own delivery set and their own packaging set, okay, so the only thing left to do is Answer is if I think there was a better way to do this.

So I think a much greener approach to this would have been, instead of getting rid of the charger, upgrading it. We have already started to see better materials, fillers based on gallium nitride which, because it is more efficient, can offer the same performance. using less materials and fitting into a smaller, much smaller brick that could realistically hold a pretty powerful 30 watt charger that actually fits into one of these new slim cases and I guess the most important aspect of the gallium nitride It's that every time you charge your phone, you actually waste less energy. Gallium nitride charges are up to 25 percent more energy efficient than just using a regular silicon charger you may have lying around, meaning it could be up to 70 percent more efficient than using the wireless charges we use.

They are currently being pushed, not to mention the byproduct of them being more energy efficient, meaning that with a Gallium Nitride charger there is less heat generated and therefore they also have a longer lifespan, so using this type of charges and working to improve them even further is What I see as a sustainable future now is to give Xiaomi some credit even though they dropped the charger for their Chinese phones for the international version of the Me 11, which they literally announced two days after I filmed the rest of this video. not only does it include a charger but it also includes a 55 watt gallium nitride charger which is great, although this will probably be one of their last phones with a brick it at least means people will have this good quality brick now to use itin all your future. phones okay thank you very much for watching my name is aaron this is the man who is the boss and I will see you next time