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Almost everything apple does nowadays is a marketing front, repairability, privacy, not including chargers, accessories and removing the headphone jack for the sake of the environment, and more to come.
Apple isn't alone in not providing chargers. My S23 Ultra didn't have one in the box.
But your S23 Ultra also uses the most common cable type for a charger. That isn't proprietary. That you likely already have a good several of.
If by “charger” you mean the brick that plugs into the wall, which I hope you do because it’s the only thing that Apple omits from the box, then Apple also uses that same cable type (USB type C). It’s only the other end of the cable that is proprietary. And the cable itself is included with the phone.
All of this is moot for the iPhone 15 pro and non-pro which are fully USB type C.
Wait... Wait, what? The new apple type-c cable has a proprietary end to it?
What the actual fuck? It's not just the standard USB-A? WHY?
No, it is usb-c - usb-c, like literally every phone produced in the last few years.
Sorry if my post was confusing. The first point was referring to cables for iPhones before the latest iPhone 15 models — previously, you’d get a cable that was standard USB-C on one end, and Lightning (the proprietary connector) on the other. You could use those cables along with any standard USB-C charging brick to charge the phone. My point was that the charging brick does not need to be proprietary, and the proprietary part (the cable) was included with the phone.
All iPhone 15 models use completely standard USB-C and come with a C to C cable in the box.