A new Apple iPhone charger?

Yet more very-planned obsolescence from Apple.

According to NPR and Apple, the new Apple iPhone requires a new charger: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/09/12/161013923/new-iphone-plug-spells-inconvenience-for-users-change-for-accessory-makers.

Yikes.

Here we go again.

Once more time, the Apple Company churns up more business, purchases and so, of course, money and profits for themselves by making a product of theirs obsolete. Apple becomes the only winner.

The loser?

Well, for one, their customers and users.

The biggest loser is the rest of the world, now that yet more of their products will go to local dumps.

Now those same users will have to go out and get yet another charger. There's the expense, sure, and then there's the fact that so many will end up thrown away, along with some of the earliest iPhones.

As a friend put it yesterday on Facebook: "Apple changed the charging adaptor (that's been on every iPhone, iPad, and iPod since they came out) on the new iPhone 5. If I upgrade, none of my many cables, charging docks, hotel alarm clocks, car cable, etc will work. Damn!"

That's just more for the local dumps, too.

And that's the bigger, uglier problem.

Yet more items will go to the dump, never to be recycled.

Yay, Apple.

Not.

This is just not a sustainable way to live, folks.