Apple gets fined $19 million for selling iPhones without a charger

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Apple is successful hassle successful Brazil implicit iPhone chargers – again.

According to , a Brazilian tribunal fined Apple 100 cardinal reais ($19 million) for not including a charger with iPhones bought successful Brazil.

While Apple continues that its enactment to present iPhones without chargers is acceptable lowering c emissions, the Brazilian courtroom's reasoning is that the organisation "imposes connected the purchaser a required acquisition of charger adaptors that person been antecedently furnished successful conjunction with the product."

Under the tribunal docket's decision, Apple volition adjacent indispensable present chargers with caller iPhones bought successful Brazil, though Apple said it'll enchantment the decision.

In September, a Brazilian courtroom ordered Apple to halt iPhone income wrong the state for this aforesaid reason, and imposed a pleasant of $2.3 million.

According to 9to5Mac, Apple's iPhone 14 and 14 Pro, which person go to beryllium had for pre-order successful Brazil eventual week, volition present with retired a charger, astatine slightest for now.

This full contented should've been prevented if Apple had switched to USB-C connected its iPhones (in spot of the proprietary Lightning port), which is immoderate happening Brazil and the European Union (among antithetic regions) were pushing for for immoderate time. It hasn't befell with the iPhone 14 enactment of gadgets, but reports say that Apple is arsenic a minimum considering making the transportation successful clip for the iPhone 15 motorboat adjacent yr.

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