To be fair, linking to another soapbox without its own hard analysis or sources isn't much more of a source than my own claim (below) or your claim. But I also

To be fair, linking to another soapbox without its own hard analysis or sources isn't much more of a source than my own claim (below) or your claim. But I also can't find much of a source on this matter outside of articles talking about Apple's or Samsung's claims. If you have 10,000 iPhones on a cargo ship that previously could only have 5,000, you've cut out a whole shipment. Whether or not this is realistically how it works is not too important (since whenever I buy it, I get tracking all the way from China and it shows China->Alaska->US, so it's likely on a plane) but let's assume this is a shipment 5 months in and they've downgraded to cargo ships. Now imagine that, out of those iPhones, half of the people buying them don't have a USB-C brick and don't have any existing USB-A bricks+USB-A charging cables lying around, aka any new customer coming from a USB-A Android. Indeed this might mean a lot more packaging like your video says, but these are people that already know for a fact that they need the new USB-C charging brick to charge their phone. For the other half of people that already have a wall charger, this new 5W charger that would have came in the box would have been thrown in a drawer somewhere, maybe never getting used since they already have chargers for where they need them, which is arguably more of a waste of rare earth metals than the packaging that the new charger comes in.