That links says that customers “are able to” not that “they must”. The website makes it sound that companies must sell a version without a charger, not they must sell only without a charger.
Why would Apple double the number of SKUs in European counties just to comply with this? Selling the charger separately is a more pragmatic choice that avoids unnecessarily complicating the product line to comply with these mounting EU regulations.
This is just dumb. I understand for phones because we all have 1 million of those cables around. But laptop, charging bricks and cable cables are not easy to come by and they’re expensive. I guess that’s the point.
