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don't worry, they're offsetting environmental harm by excluding chargers and other accessories from your purchase. You can pay more to get these items, because that's Apple's commitment to the 'environment'.

That affects iPhones not Macs, but there is actually an environmental benefit in the form of shipment density due to the omission. It makes sense to not ship chargers to most people who already have a way of charging their new phone.

Apparently they sold 6 million Macs in Q2 [1]

6M/91d/24h is about 2700 units per hour, if those numbers from statista are true.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263444/sales-of-apple-ma...

Pre-pandemic, Ford sold a pickup truck on average once every 30 seconds.

off topic but post-pandemic my Bronco still doesn't have a build date, this chip shortage is out of hand

You have no idea. I just got a 100 week factory lead time for a cortex m4 ARM chip… it’s not a super rare chip.

A year later and Ampere GPUs are still near impossible to get. So much for my home ML machine... (literally only waiting on a GPU and been that way for a year)

apple sold 18 million macs in 2018