This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. Recently, a rumor made the rounds that Apple is planning to remove the charger and earbuds from the iPhone 12 box. This was heightened — more fuel poured onto the fire if you will — by leaked package designs that show no space for the peripherals. Even better, it appears that Samsung is gearing up to get rid of the charger in its phone boxes too. Because other companies like to human centipede themselves onto Apple’s beefy rectum and just eat shit, rather than take…

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