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> always shipped a high-quality charger and headphones with the iPhone, something which started with its ancestor the iPod. Phones with proprietary connectors
by Steltek 5y ago
> always shipped a high-quality charger and headphones with the iPhone, something which started with its ancestor the iPod.
Phones with proprietary connectors always shipped with chargers. Probably most micro USB phones as well. Apple was not special in this regard.
Likewise with earbuds, many phones, smart and dumb, also shipped with earbuds or a headset. Apple was leveraging the iPod name to sell the iPhone so omitting earbuds would have been conspicuous.
- judge2020 5y agoiPhone still ships with the cord, all you need is a brick or other power source with the increasingly-common USB-C connector.
- larrik 5y ago"increasingly-common", my macbook and now my PS5 have USB-C female ports for charging stuff. That's the grand total of places I can use these cords (and I doubt the PS5 will charge my phone). It's a slow rollout best.
- Macha 5y agoAt least the PS4 USB ports worked perfectly fine for charging arbitrary devices, though I wouldn't expect fast charge voltages out of them even if USB-C is more standardised on that stuff than older fast charge implementations.
- larrik 5y agoI know that I can't charge the PS5 controller off the switch dock, at least. I never have to charge the Pro Controller while the PS5 controller only lasts a few hours, so that would have been handy.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago>iPhone still ships with the cord Yeah, the cord that's not compatible with their previous gen chargers, which they claimed everyone had enough of at home, and had dropped to "save the environment". Dick move.
- Macha 5y agoYeah, I remember a Sony Ericsson phone I had in the early 00s that definitely came with headphones and charger (for it's proprietary connector) long before any of the current major players were even in the phone industry.