1) Phones need chargers to work. Companies that include them with a phone are being courteous, just like when a car dealer fills up your tank when you buy a new car. Now imagine how you'd feel if the car dealer drains the tank before you buy the car, or adds on a $50 fill-up-the-tank fee onto the sticker price.
2) Phones don't charge equally. Does yours support Qualcomm Quickcharge 2.0? 3.0? 4.0? Or was that MediaTek Pump Express 2.0? 3.0? or 4.0? Or Samsung Fast Charging, Apple Fast Charging, Huawei Super Charging, Motorola TurboPower, or OnePlus Dash Charge? Or just the simple Fast Charge? Oh, forgot to mention, USB-C or USB-Micro? Or do you like waiting eight hours for your flagship phone to charge to full over a classic 5W port?
3) Phone manufacturers' chargers typically don't wreck your phone, or start fires, or electrocute people. Third-party chargers, many who are incentivized to make as cheap a charger as possible, have been known to do so. Give ignorant consumers the power to choose, and they'll make that mistake.
No, and here's why (Score:2)
My answer: No.
My reasons:
1) Phones need chargers to work. Companies that include them with a phone are being courteous, just like when a car dealer fills up your tank when you buy a new car. Now imagine how you'd feel if the car dealer drains the tank before you buy the car, or adds on a $50 fill-up-the-tank fee onto the sticker price.
2) Phones don't charge equally. Does yours support Qualcomm Quickcharge 2.0? 3.0? 4.0? Or was that MediaTek Pump Express 2.0? 3.0? or 4.0? Or Samsung Fast Charging, Apple Fast Charging, Huawei Super Charging, Motorola TurboPower, or OnePlus Dash Charge? Or just the simple Fast Charge? Oh, forgot to mention, USB-C or USB-Micro? Or do you like waiting eight hours for your flagship phone to charge to full over a classic 5W port?
3) Phone manufacturers' chargers typically don't wreck your phone, or start fires, or electrocute people. Third-party chargers, many who are incentivized to make as cheap a charger as possible, have been known to do so. Give ignorant consumers the power to choose, and they'll make that mistake.