30-Day Roadmap - Challenge #10

HeyupConecta

One last question 💬🤔

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🔸 If you could ask a tech company one honest question, what would it be? 🧠

It can be about their products, pricing, privacy or even their promises.

💠 What answer do you truly want to hear? 👀

📌 Use the hashtag #AskTheMakers 🏷️

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Sometimes the right question says more than any review 💡

Menguelez

HeyupConecta

#AskTheMakers

I would ask all phone manufacturers who, for reasons of sustainability or the environment, stopped including the charger to avoid making the box bigger and causing more pollution. If it now comes in a separate box, I don’t see the benefit… Why this decision?

dsmonteiro

HeyupConecta I can ask one honest question, but I wonder if they would give me one honest answer. :D

For this #AskTheMakers, I would love to ask Nothing,

What’s it like to balance the dream of being a different brand with the pressures of investors and having to make money to stay afloat?

It’s clear that Nothing is a brand with ideals, but we’ve seen multiple times they need to make decisions against those ideals, clearly due to investors’ pressure, so I would love to understand what’s it like to be in the shoes of who has to make those decisions.

Gallaax

HeyupConecta

# AskTheMakers
Why do new phones keep getting more expensive when mid-range ones now have almost the same features?

Menguelez
Exactly! Removing the charger only shifted the waste, not reduced it. “For the planet,” they said… but somehow we are buying more boxes now.

dsmonteiro

Menguelez I’m not a phone manufacturer, but I think it’s mostly fueled by EU’s decision to make it mandatory to NOT ship a charger.

In any case, I would assume most people skip buying a charger these days, so the impact of the decision is still positive, even if not as positive as the measure want it to.

dsmonteiro

Gallaax honest question, do you typically buy a charger with a new phone?

I ask because I have multiple unused chargers at home.

Gallaax

dsmonteiro

For my part , most of the phones I bought had the charger integrated, on some sites you can have the possibility of integrating it, but it costs more . Additionally, with some phones that have faster charging, like Xiaomi with 64W or 120W chargers, it would be too bad to miss out.

So yes I always buy a charger when I get a new phone.

dsmonteiro

Gallaax fair enough. I guess it’s the same for me with OPPO and OnePlus devices. Missing out on SuperVOOC because I don’t have a compatible charger would have a significant impact in my way of using the device.

The big difference is that I have plenty of SuperVOOC chargers around the house.

OnePlus still gives you the charger as a “free” accessory, though. The nice thing about it is that you can actually pick something else if you already have a charger. But yeah, still more packaging and more volume.