Apple removed the charger from the iPhone box in 2020, called it an environmental decision, and saved $6.5 billion in under two years.
The math is beautiful. The bundled charger and EarPods cost far less to make than the $19 Apple charges for each one sold separately. Analysts at CCS Insight put the savings around $35 per phone. Across the 190 million iPhones shipped since the change, that's $6.5 billion, plus roughly $295 million in new accessory revenue from customers buying back the thing that used to be free.
The shipping angle is even better. Smaller boxes fit 70% more iPhones per pallet, cutting freight costs by roughly 40%. Apple framed this as eliminating 2 million metric tons of carbon per year. The same slide could have read "we now pay for one cargo flight where we used to pay for two."
And the price never dropped. The iPhone 12 launched $29 higher than the iPhone 11 it replaced, with less in the box.
The best part is what competitors did. Samsung ran an ad mocking the move: a photo of a charger captioned "Included with your Galaxy." Three months later Samsung deleted the ad and shipped the Galaxy S21 without a charger. Same routine as 2019, when it mocked Apple for killing the headphone jack, then scrubbed those ads once the Note 10 killed it too.
Brazil was the one holdout. Regulators fined Apple and ordered iPhone sales suspended until chargers came back. Apple appealed and kept shipping.
So when you ask the store employee if your $2,000 phone comes with a charger, you're asking about a line item that quietly generates more profit than most Fortune 500 companies earn in a year.
The older generation was just different. Look at the poise and elegance ( in speech and appearance ) of an uneducated man.
Compare that to this generation.
You literally closed by account without reason and have kept nearly £12,000 you have not returned.
You said it was because of Bitcoin, but I never used @wise to buy Bitcoin. It turned out it was because a Bitcoin company paid an invoice.
You froze my account, froze my funds and have not returned a VAT payment that was sent to you.
OpenAI's AI broke out of a locked test environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face's servers. It did this entirely on its own. No human told it to.
Here's what happened in plain English.
OpenAI was testing how good its newest AI models are at hacking. They put the AI on a locked computer with no internet access and gave it a cybersecurity challenge to solve.
The AI couldn't solve it the normal way. So it started looking for a way out.
It found a software bug that nobody knew about. It used that bug to escape the locked computer and get onto the internet.
Once online, the AI figured out that Hugging Face, a platform where AI companies store their models and data, might have the answers to its test.
It found stolen login details and discovered another unknown bug in Hugging Face's software. It combined both to break into their servers and grab the test answers.
It did all of this to cheat on a test.
Hugging Face's security team caught it and shut it down. Both companies are now working together on the investigation.
The part that should get your attention is that nobody programmed any of this. The AI picked its own targets, chained together multiple attack methods, and pulled it off across two different companies' systems without a single human telling it what to do.
O comentarista suíço David Lemos, encerrou a transmissão resumindo com precisão os problemas desta Copa do Mundo, ele foi perfeito.
🗣️"Não há dúvidas de que esta foi a Copa do Mundo mais comercial da história e também uma das mais politizadas."
"Não esqueceremos os preços que pessoas sem grande poder aquisitivo tiveram de pagar para viver sua paixão pelo futebol."
"Em alguns casos, sequer puderam entrar no país por causa de sua nacionalidade, fossem torcedores, jornalistas ou até árbitros, como o somali Omar Artan."
"Também lembramos do tratamento inaceitável dado à seleção do Irã, que não pôde defender suas chances de forma adequada durante o torneio."
"E há ainda o caso de Folarin Balogun. Vimos um presidente se vangloriar de ter ligado para o presidente da FIFA para conseguir retirar a suspensão de um jogador."
"A política se infiltrou no coração do futebol, embora a FIFA afirme querer mantê-la acima de tudo. Fica claro que isso só vale até certo ponto."
"Foi uma Copa do Mundo em que todas as partidas foram disputadas em quatro tempos, e cuja final teve um intervalo de quase 30 minutos."
"A crise tem dois nomes: dinheiro e poder. Hoje existe uma crise de confiança entre muitos dos envolvidos no futebol e a FIFA."
"Nas próximas semanas, muito dinheiro será distribuído a diversas federações e a muitos agentes do futebol, que serão educadamente convidados a permanecer em silêncio."
"Esperamos que tudo isso seja levado em consideração e que não volte a acontecer."