Brazilian Ministry of Justice fines Apple over $2 million and orders ban of iPhones sold without a charger

07 September 2022
The ban includes all iPhone models that don’t include a power adapter. Apple is going to appeal the order.

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  • Sin
  • HCj
  • 22 Jul 2023

Great job Brazilian ministry 👍
This standard for technology should be global as this is crystal clear that it hurts the consumer too not ship a changer in the box with the smartphone

As you can't fully use the full functionality of a smartphone as also third party changer are dangerous and a safety problem for smartphones as a changer that is not original shouldn't be used because of voltage regulator problems

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    • Sin
    • HCj
    • 22 Jul 2023

    Excellent apple can't sell phone without changer in the box no changer in the box no sale of iPhone

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      • Anonymous
      • XSs
      • 13 Sep 2022

      507AMS, 07 Sep 2022those $2,000,000.00 USD in fines represents the first 45 se... moreAnd ban iPhone will cost them whole Asia sales lol

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        • Krish
        • 7kb
        • 11 Sep 2022

        Anonymous, 08 Sep 2022People who demand chargers to be sold with a smartphone are... moreSo you want to solve pollution problem with charger, tell me how much percent pollution you are controlling with it

          How about Apple stopped including a charger in the box, but forgot to update the price?

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            • Suresh Thapa
            • HsJ
            • 10 Sep 2022

            Give me 13 😂

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              • Diego
              • 6u%
              • 08 Sep 2022

              Anonymous, 08 Sep 2022People who demand chargers to be sold with a smartphone are... moreOh please, to A LOT of people, it takes a lot of time to save the money to buy an expensive phone. Why should I pay over 1,000 dollars and not get a charger not headphones along the cellphone?
              That ecological joke is already old.

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                • Anonymous
                • gLN
                • 08 Sep 2022

                Anonymous, 08 Sep 2022People who demand chargers to be sold with a smartphone are... moreno they are not.. sort of. people who want the same charger they already have where the phone doesnt support faster charging = yes.. but newer phones usually have better charging which need newer chargers to support it

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                  • Anonymous
                  • x4{
                  • 08 Sep 2022

                  Anonymous, 08 Sep 2022People who demand chargers to be sold with a smartphone are... moreBrazil is doing right. Selling the charger separately is just profit for smartphone companies as they can just ask the same or even higher price for their phones but the customer has to pay additionally to get the charger. Moreover, it has no positive environmental effect due to the fact that the customer will order the charger separately which means additional packaging and additional delivery procedure. As surely not everyone will order a new charger, Apple can produce less chargers while making extra profit from charger sales.
                  The environmental effect is similar to the one achieved with the restriction of plastic straws in EU.
                  NOTHING!
                  (Concerning the plastic straw: I once bought a Nescafe frappé coffee set. It included a plastic cup, a plastic cover, a plastic packaging for the coffee powder and the sugar and of course an overall plastic packaging for all the stuff. The product was advertised for having a paper straw 🤔.)

                  P.S.: Your rude behavior shows your fanatic love for mainstream media. Always hating but never looking on the real problems.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • gLT
                    • 08 Sep 2022

                    People who demand chargers to be sold with a smartphone are deranged and don't care about pollution.

                      Anonymous, 07 Sep 2022I mean, if Apple could sell a phone without a battery, they... moreApple would even do that in coming future.
                      And apple will sell phone without camers toooo.
                      We have to separately buy modules.
                      And they would sell phone without internal parts.
                      We would be buying it separately.
                      Maybe this would happen eventually.

                        I hope it's not just Brazil towards Apple. All countries must know the fact that we can't survive without Handphone nowadays.

                        So instead of putting another charger in new phone box, they should come up with the policy to exchange the spoilt / old cable to the new. With this, the supplier can refurbish or recycle it.

                        i.e.
                        USB-A - Lightning exchange to USB-C - Lightning
                        or
                        USB-A - Micro-USB exchange to USB-A - USB-C

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                          • Anonymous
                          • yVf
                          • 07 Sep 2022

                          These company should at least give their customer an option. You can just sell a phone without any accessory at a lower price for those who don't need them, but for those who need them, sell phone with all accessory with a higher price, which i think is a fair deal.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • p1g
                            • 07 Sep 2022

                            Anonymous, 07 Sep 2022Brazil is doing right. Selling the charger separately is ju... moreexcuse me, in the last sentence i meant "advertised for having a paper straw". 😅

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                              • IgorS
                              • Lmt
                              • 07 Sep 2022

                              Sorry (not sorry) if any of you here don't agree, but this was a wise and necessary decision that more governments needs to enforce on those companies. Most of them are removing everything from the box, aside from the phone, yet the price doesn't drop acordingly. Same excuse all time, but a real reduction of enviromental trash won't happen removing chargers, but doing concrete acts to reduce the use of plastic and, of course, recycling.

                              Now, it's Apple choice: Being banned from selling in one of their biggest markets, pay millions in fines, or spending money to keep the charger in the box. =)

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                                • Woohoo
                                • u7V
                                • 07 Sep 2022

                                Haha, after all those things they did, they really deserve this one. Bravo.

                                  Serve them right. That's good. Cuz they really deserve it. If only the fine's more than that, it'd be better. Hopefully many ministries all over the world would apply the same thing to the crApple company and those who follow it. Fingers crossed.

                                    This is brilliant - we need many more countries to do the same to Apple! That's the only way to make these giants contribute to society. They already pay 0% in tax.

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • 70d
                                      • 07 Sep 2022

                                      Anonymous, 07 Sep 2022no, they don't, how hard is to go and buy an charger, ... moreHow about selling you an empty box and you can go by a phone later? It isn't hard, is it?

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • 70d
                                        • 07 Sep 2022

                                        kek, 07 Sep 2022Based Brazil. Say what you want, but the charger does no... moreI mean, if Apple could sell a phone without a battery, they would.