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It's not about not using it, it's that most people already have at least one (if not a small pile) of power adapter blocks with USB input already.



Right, I have gobs of them too... but they’re all USB type A, so the included USB C cable with the iPhone 12 is kinda weird. People don’t have many USB C bricks yet. So I don’t think the logic of “people have them already” checks out


A lot of people have USB A Lightning cables already.


I was thinking the same thing, but on second thought I already have a multitude of USB-A and USB-C to lightning cables and chargers all over the house and ready to go in my backpacks.


In no world do most people have USB-C blocks already.


Well, anyone who's had an Android in the last few years would, and they're widely available (and cheap) online.

The unbundling is obviously just Apple pushing people toward their new magsafe charger tech though, (spinning it as an environmentally friendly thing) so they can finally make the jump to completely portless phones.




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