Apple was sentenced to 7000 yuan per person by Brazil for not sending a charger. What law did Apple violate?

Apple was sentenced to 7000 yuan per person by Brazil for not sending a charger. Apple's actions violate the provisions of Brazil's consumer protection law. This clause clearly points out that devices such as smart phones must be equipped with chargers and can be sold separately, but it is not mandatory to sell them separately in order to make the devices fully functional. The charging cable of Apple's mobile phone is different from other mobile phones, which means that if you don't buy the charging cable of Apple's mobile phone, then Apple's mobile phone will not work normally, so the judge asked.

In fact, as early as when Apple released the Apple 12 series of mobile phones, it was said that in order to protect the environment, the mobile phone charging head would not be attached to the mobile phone packaging. The purpose of this is to improve the utilization rate of chargers in consumers' hands, and also to save millions of charging heads for the company every year. For Apple, it can really play an environmental protection role and save costs. However, this practice of not sending charging heads in the name of "environmental protection" has so far.

It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that Apple has been fined for not being equipped with a charger. In February 2020, a public consumer protection agency in Brazil asked Apple to provide chargers to any consumer who bought Apple 12, but Apple did not respond. By March of 20021year, the regulatory authorities had fined Apple 6.5438+0.467 million yuan for misleading propaganda on the waterproof property of mobile phones, selling defective products, maintaining unfair contract terms, and refusing to repair products still under warranty.

This time, Apple is required to compensate consumers for 7,000 yuan. The main reason is that this is a case of bundling in disguise or "reverse", which belongs to abuse and illegal business practices and violates the provisions of Brazil's Consumer Protection Law.