Why is Samsung an apple clone?

[popmaster109]

Samsung used to be trend setters but unfortunately they are becoming if not clones of Apple, Apple started off with No expendable memory and now Samsung has copied Apple why??? This forces customers to pay for bigger storage up front? Yes Samsung will say you've got the Samsung cloud ☁️ yes but what happens if something goes wrong like when I uploaded photos and videos to it and lost half of them, I'm Postive Samsung would sell loads more of the base GB mobile phones if you had SD Expandable memory slot, 

Samsung once again copied Apple and removed the Charger from the box??? This was done on environmental impact grounds??? Yeah who's Samsung trying to kid it's all down to cutting costs, as most people sell their Charger with their old phone and now Samsung has to separately box the phone and charger which must not be good for the environmental as it means extra packaging and shipping costs which must increase Samsung's carbon footprint and extra post and packaging costs, Samsung just put the charger in the box and make the box and all internal packaging 100% from recycled materials 

On about chargers come on Samsung where is 65W or even 100W charging speeds on other phones???

Please install a screen protector with your phones or provide one and a basic case for your phones and make the unboxing experience special for customers who have spent £1,200 or a phone to have a plain old black box with nothing inside except the phone and a charging cable, talking about charging cable why doesn't Samsung make their charging cable more premium looking braided and having Samsung writing on it 

Don't get me wrong I love Samsung Mobile phones but come on Samsung be different from Apple 

[popmaster109]

Sorry but no there's more waste more separate boxes and a bigger carbon footprint not included it in the box as most people wii sell their charger with there old phone and have to buy a new one

[RXM]

Why would you ever sell a charger alongside a phone which never came with a charger? That's silly. If you desire to sell the product onwards when planning on upgrading you sell the phone the way it came.

Imagine begrudgingly purchasing a separate charger, especially if it's a nice premium 45W one, with all the hassle, cost and negative emotions that come bundled with such a purchase then willingly giving it away when you then sell the phone onwards. Then willingly repeating the whole process all over again. You also deny the purchaser of your old phone the right of passage that is begrudgingly purchasing a separate charger, which I believe is an important right of passage for everyone to undertake because it establishes in your mind that this charger is 'mine', I bought it, it's a product in of its own and that person wanting to purchase my phone cannot have it for it is not theirs, for it is mine 😠 No longer is the charger seen as something belonging to the phone, but belonging to you.

In this respect you keep the charger much longer hopefully and this stops every phone having it's own charger, but maybe every 2nd/3rd/4th phone having it's own charger. In the short term it's actually worse in terms of carbon footprint but if done correctly in the long run it is far better.

Also it's time to also get rid of the USB-C cable. This is by far the most useless accessory bundled as everyone on the planet has a USB-C cable at this point if not a dozen. Buy a nice extra long durable USB-C that's capable of high speed charging capabilities and also keep it. The cable supplied in the S24 Ultra box is only able to charge at 25w max and is a short 1m cable. I purchased a 5A rated 1.8m cable for about £5 and it's infinitely better and again, it's 'mine'. Not going to gift it to someone purchasing my phone down the line.

If you're switching phone brands then yeah sell the charger alongside the phone, as long as it's incompatible with fast charging whatever your new phone is, in that situation that's fine. Also remember a huge amount of people these days don't even sell their old phones. They trade them in for a discount against a new phone. This is how the vast majority of people who I know upgrade their phones nowadays. You just send in the phone and that's it. It just makes too much sense and actually I think whether it was/is a cash grab is irrelevant as the result of the cash grab still leads to preferable environmental outcomes over the long run, if you only look at the short term effect then you will only ever see the negative aspects, which is understandable.