The REAL Reason Apple iPhone XS Doesn't Come With A Fast Charger

Starting with the iPhone 8 Apple began supporting fast charging on all their new iPhones finally given their customers the ability to quickly charge their batteries up to 50% in as little as 30 minutes not only is this a really convenient feature to have when you're running low on battery in the middle of the day but by finally supporting it Apple has helped the iPhone kind of catch up to its Android competitors who have been offering the feature for years.

but here's the thing unlike Samsung unlike LG or Google or Huawei or Motorola Apple's decided to think different and not include a fast charger in the box and instead they sell the cable and adapter you need separately for $70 which you know when you've just spent a thousand dollars on a new iPhone 10s or even $1,100 on the 10s max you kind of expect Apple to throw you a bone right like every other manufacturer includes a fast charger in the box.

So, why does an Apple well in today's we're going to try to answer that question looking at three potential reasons why Apple may have decided not to include a fast charger in the box and to start things off we have to go over the first reason that comes to mind the most obvious reason to anybody who isn't a complete Apple sheep and that's what Apple just sees an opportunity to make more money by not including a fast charger in the box not only this Apple increase the profit margin on every single iPhone sold with a cheaper charger but they also get to increase the revenue from their accessories business from anybody who wants fast charging.

so from a business perspective as long as people don't stop buying iPhones because they're not including for Apple to do so and the reality is most people aren't going to avoid buying an iPhone just because it doesn't include a fast charger in fact I'd go as far as saying that most iPhone users outside of the tech community don't even know what fast charging is so again why would Apple just give it to them for free giving away stuff for free isn't exactly how Apple became a trillion dollar company but who knows right like maybe the extra profit isn't the real reason may be the real reason is actually the opposite.

And that Apple is trying to save you money by having the iPhone last you longer now I know that sounds crazy and it probably is considering it's against their main revenue model but hear me out for a second so because fast charging effectively pushes more energy into the battery in a shorter amount of time it generates more heat than conventional charging does and as both Apple and Samsung will tell you on their websites excess heat is generally bad news for battery capacity, in fact, Apple goes as far as recommending that you remove certain cases from your iPhone.

While you're charging it in order to help cool things down so by not equipping each and every new iPhone user out there with a fast charger who most likely will only charge their phone overnight anyways.

We're fast charging doesn't really matter Apple may be saving millions softphones from excess heats which in theory could help those iPhones last longer sure it may not make a difference in the first year or the second year maybe not even in the third but considering that Apple is now supporting iPhones for longer than ever with the five-year-old iPhone 5s still updated to iOS 12 it could have a real effect so is this the real reason you know while it is interesting to consider I don't think.

So, at the end of the day if Apple really only cared about battery preservation they could always ship the iPhone with fast chargers and just build in a software feature in iOS 12 that defaults the iPhone to slow charging Samsung has a future just like this where you can toggle fast charging on and off so clearly Apple can do.

It as well but they don’t so while extending the life of the iPhones battery may or may not be supporting reason for Apple it's definitely not the real reason why they're not including a fast charger butler’s shift gears now and move on to the third reason why Apple may have decided not to include a fast charger and maybe more importantly why they may not ever include a fast charger in an iPhone box.

And that reason is Apple believes Wireless is the future it's the reason why they say they got rid of the headphone jack and it's the vision that will inevitably lead them to get rid of the charging port and getting rid of that charging port would be a lot harder of a transition if your customer base was already used to fast charging because as of right now wireless charging is 2 times slower than fast charging via a cable and given all the troubles that.

Apple has had with airpower I don't know if it's guaranteed that by the time the Apple does remove the charging ports that wireless charging will be equal to what you can get with fast charging so there's a good chance the Apple may be holding off on making fast charging standard on the iPhone because they plan on getting rid of wired charging altogether by not including a fast charger in the box and by putting a pretty high price on festering they ultimately reduce the total amount of people who become accustomed to it and therefore they reduce the total amount of backlash that they’ll get when they remove the charging port.

So which one is it what’s the real reason why annoyingly Apple isn’t including a fast charger in the box is Apple just being greedy or are they trying to extend your battery life are they setting themselves up for a successful transition into a wireless future personally I think it's more about the money in the short term and about the transition to becoming fully wireless in the long term.